Nadia de Vries

Nadia de Vries is a poet, novelist and cultural critic. Her debut novel 'De bakvis' (Uitgeverij Pluim, 2022) was longlisted for two of the biggest literary prizes in the Low Countries. It was translated to English as 'Thistle' by Sarah Timmer Harvey (The New Menard Press, 2024). De Vries also writes poetry in English.

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Besides other works of poetry, she also self-published an anthology titled Sisternhood (2016), which gathered the work of new female European authors. Regarding her non-fiction work, her essays in Dutch have appeared in De Gids and nY. Her doctoral research at the University of Amsterdam focuses on the representation of the human corpse in contemporary digital culture.

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Hypochondriac

As a young girl, Nadia de Vries is diagnosed with systemic mastocytosis, a rare disease that can develop into an aggressive form of leukaemia. While doctors line up to examine her in the hospital, she is told she will likely never reach adulthood. Having made peace with death, she spends hours watching TV and on the computer; she never learns how to swim. But, when in her teens, De Vries makes a full recovery, she must find a place in the world in which she has never learned to live. Her resulting depressions and suicidal ‘aspirations’ are diagnosed as a personality disorder – a condition that only arouses scepticism and humiliation.

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