Tommy Wieringa
Tommy Wieringa (b. 1967) is the author of Alles over Tristan (Everything About Tristan, 2002) and Joe Speedboat (2005), his staggeringly successful breakthrough novel which went on to sell 300,000 copies. Wieringa’s work has been translated into languages as disparate as French, Hebrew and Korean.
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Prizes
Dit zijn de namen (These Are the Names, 2012) earned him the Libris Literature Prize and the Inktaap young readers’ award. The Death Of Murat Idrissi, Sam Garrett’s translation of De dood van Murat Idrissi (2017), was longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. The novel, De heilige Rita (The Blessed Rita, 2017), received the Bookspot Readers and Literature Prize, the Gouden Boekenuil audience award and the Inktaap.
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Joe Speedboat
With his wheelchair-bound spastic narrator, Fransje Hermans, who can only speak in unintelligible grunts, Tommy Wieringa has succeeded in writing a dazzling novel whose every page sparkles with imagination, it is a splendid literary achievement. The story is driven by Joe Speedboat, friend and classmate of the narrator and, of course, his enterprising counterpart.
A Beautiful Young Woman
One of the most important Dutch writers of the last decade took on the challenge of writing the novella that would form the centrepiece for the annual Book Week. The result is an exquisite tragedy fuelled by an age gap and irreconcilable differences, which has garnered five-star critical acclaim.