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Göteborg 2027

<p>Her debut novel DeepDeepBlue (2022) was awarded the CCS Crone Stipendium, shortlisted for the Bronzen Uil and longlisted for De Boon. It will be published in German bij Residenz Verlag in 2026 de Volkskrant proclaimed her the ‘Literary talent of 2023’. She writes columns for Vroege Vogels and edits the literary magazine Tirade. Under Our Feet is her second book.</p>

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Nikki Dekker

Under Our Feet is full of enchanting facts about soil life and musings about the advance of time, carbon and ecological restoration. Nikki Dekker’s amazement is highly contagious.

A wonderful book about depth and what it takes to share the world with other life forms, under and above ground.

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An irresistible and playful journey through  a unique underground landscape

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Most of us have a more accurate picture of the deepest depths of the ocean than we do of the ground beneath our feet. A handful of earth can contain thousands of animal species, metres of fungal threads and billions of bacteria. Soil is also an archive, and digging a kind of time travel. In De Grote Peel, a protected Dutch peatland, Nikki Dekker finds a world of interconnectedness from which we have much to learn, especially for those looking for the ‘why’ of existence.

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