Jannah Loontjens
Jannah Loontjens (b. 1974) is a philosopher and writer. Her earlier novels include Good Luck (2007), How Late (2011), Actually (2014) and But Then Again. Her work has been translated into Danish and Hungarian.
Jannah Loontjens (b. 1974) is a philosopher and writer. Her earlier novels include Good Luck (2007), How Late (2011), Actually (2014) and But Then Again. Her work has been translated into Danish and Hungarian.
(Ambo Anthos, 2018, 224 pagina's)
Amsterdam, January 2015, the eve of a major protest march in response to the attack on Charlie Hebdo. Eight friends and family members are dining together. Subtle, telling descriptions reveal the tensions between the people at the table, exploring the fabric of today’s multicultural European society.
(Podium, 2020, 240 pagina's)
Poet, essayist, novelist and philosopher Jannah Loontjens, mother of two growing children, decides not to celebrate Christmas with her mother this year. Afterwards she feels enormously burdened: how should she tell her? And where do those stubborn, everlasting feelings of guilt (about her lover, her children, that one glass of wine too many, her own body – the list goes on) actually come from?