Longlist AKO Literature Prize. What NRC wrote about the nominees? – Nrc.nl

The jury for the AKO Literature Prize has just announced its “list of tips” (long list). What did NRC Handelsblad on the titles that have list of tips you get it?

About the list writes Arjen Fortuin tomorrow TVNZ :

“The jury of the AKO Literature Prize is relatively well endowed young writers on the list of tips of 25 titles, which was announced Friday. Among the contenders of the prize include Santos (night) and debutants Nina Polak (We will not smash) and Anne Eekhout (Dogma). Also, a relatively unknown author like Walter van den Berg (From dead men do not you win) took the so-called “list of tips”
choice for relatively young writers -. Eekhout, De Boer and Polak were born in the eighties – consistent with the large amount of attention that the literary magazine Das Magazin is able to attract authors of the new generation, who not only feeds on the literature of the past, but mostly contemporary American books and television series . “

Long List AKO Literature

Of the 25 titles included in the list of tips from AKO Literature there are three not reviewed in NRC Handelsblad. Merijn de Boer, The Night (Querido) and Anne Eekhout, Dogma (Querido) appeared not review. Following the nominated title The last room (Nijgh & amp; Van Ditmar) and his 80th birthday was published on August 3, 2013 an interview with French Pointl. The other, discussed, titles that the long list of AKO Literatuurprijsd 2014 have achieved are below

Maarten Asscher – Apples and pears (Atlas | Contact).

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Jaap Cohen’s book lawyer, bookseller and writer Maarten Asscher (1957):

Praise of the comparison on the infectious manner has done. In twenty-two beautiful essays, he shows that historical comparisons just an effective tool can be, not only to clarify a particular thought, but also to come. “To original insights

Walter van den Berg – From dead men do not you win (The Busy Bee)

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Sebastiaan Briefly about the third novel by Van den Berg (1970):

From dead men do not you win is a novel about a man who is flawed for a penny. In a two-hundred-page monologue, think of Tuesday Elvis Peeters, point the main character to Wesley, the son of a woman with whom he once had a relationship. He confesses he kiss his ass, he glues, he tries crooked right to cocks, and all about, well, why does he do it anyway? One of the great strengths of this book is that you all the time keep wondering why this heart aired

Remco Campert -. Hotel du Nord (The Busy Bee)

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Kester Freriks about the short novel by Campert (1929):

‘Camp Ore novella Hôtel du Nord is an intriguing mix of suspense and poetry. [..] Subtly Campert protagonist Mannings linking childhood as an orphan with his later desire for absence without lapse. Psychology The futile quest for solitude of Manning touches the reader deeply. The moment he comes to realize that he always led a life on the run, he takes a far-reaching decision

Tijs Goldschmidt -. Fish in bath (Athenaeum-Polak & amp; Van Gennep)

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Marko Kamphuis about the book promoted evolutiebiolooog Goldschmidt:

“Goldschmidts essays are elegantly written, informative, and you can hear it as self nomination with his amiable. But at some point it came to me it is very comfortable about. Even if it is from an evolutionary point of view to wake on your slippers to do than to walk on your toes all the impression smarter yet I think that writing these pieces Goldschmidt has not been exhausted. “Mortally

Arnon Grunberg – Apocalypse (Nijgh & amp; Van Ditmar)

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Whipped Jaeger on the second stories of AKO and Libris Prize Winner Arnon Grunberg:

“What Grunberg really did not show it, is that he can write excellent and original short stories together. Apocalypse contains tales Grunberg between 2004 and 2012 wrote for literary magazines as The Guide and Hollands Monthly , but also for opinion magazines and newspapers. All themes from Grunberg earlier work come back, “

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Wessel to Gussinklo -. Very bright light (Koppernik)

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Arjen Fortuin about returning novel ‘thinking writer’ Too Gussinklo (1941), nearly twenty years after his previous novel The (Van der Hoogt Price, Bordewijk Prize and nominated for Libris Prize):

“They still exist, think writers. Authors in whom a book is not a written screenplay, not merely a tightly controlled sequence of scenes and events with a smooth plot. A book in which, however, the entire text of the impact of the – not necessarily brooding of weaned – reflections of the protagonist. Books whose core lies not in what is happening, but what is experienced ‘

Stefan Hertmans -. War and turpentine (The Busy Bee)

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Arnon Grunberg about WWI novel Hertmans:

“Literary is War and turpentine only really interesting if we apply the theory that we have to make a forgery, which Hertmans even the paintings that were his grandfather and printed handedly painted in the book. There are namely sentences in War and turpentine which the essayist Hertmans, which I greatly appreciate, would have embarrassed a bit. [..] Only when forgery and turpentine War comes to life because it is a novel about how the pictures that you never entered and that you do not want to enter. “

Jeroen Koch – William I (Tree)

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Beatrice de Graaf on the king biography of Koch:

“Perhaps the greatest merit of Kochs magisterial, fluent written and provisionally final king biography is that he draws in the reader as well as some confusion behind. Koch presents us the riddle-Willem in all its contradictions for and forces us to form

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Guus Kuijer -. The Bible for unbelievers (2) (Athenaeum-Polak & amp; Van Gennep)

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Henry Spiering on the second bijbelhervertelling of Kuijer:

“God became grim in the beautiful second part of Guus Kuijers Bible for Unbelievers, which runs from Moses to Samson. [..] Kuijers retelling is merciless, his mastery of the stories superior, no biblical detail goes unnoticed ‘

Guus Kuijer -. The Bible for unbelievers (3 ) (Athenaeum-Polak & amp; Van Gennep)

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Wilfred Branches over Kuijers third Bijbelhervertelling:

‘Part 3 is the best part so far, to start here because Kuijer the best Bible recounts: Samuel. God, they only vaguely present in the background – so much so that it can be mistaken for coincidence. The book reads like a historical novel. With his great sense of humor, his light style, his erudition and his irascible nature has Kuijer the book of Samuel enriched with interpretation and floor and stripped of his pious low

Tom Lanoye -. Happy slaves (Prometheus)

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Janet Luis on the novel of the Constantijn Huygens Prize winner Tom Lanoye (1958):

In Happy slaves makes Lanoye in fresh, jaunty terms, but once again that life is no fun. [..] It is also nice how smooth Lanoye his narrator can let go the oceans, continents and the major rivers

Jan van Mers Mountains -. The last escape (Cossee)

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Arjan Fortune on the seventh novel by BNG New Literature Prize Winner and Libris-nominated Jan van Mers Bergen:

“In the lifelike representation of the horny drunken trips grabs Of Mers Bergen back on what he to the other side of the night already proved to be: his readers bask in the glow of the protagonist. Where that desire in Van Bergens Mers previous novel to a (alcoholic) unit made, it is in The last ontsnappin g but one of the building blocks. [..] From Mers Bergen received a multitude of scenes in which small gestures and unspoken thoughts you just take your breath away

Marente the Moor -. Roundhay garden scene (Querido)

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Arjen Fortuin over third novel by former AKO-prize winner Marente the Moor (1972):

At the beginning expected you Roundhay, garden scene a conventional historical novel is, as one in which the past betrays what does the author of the present. A look back disguised as cultural criticism. [..] But her novel The Moor has also given the necessary traits of a thriller. [..] It has an ingenious ideas edifice completed, in which she brilliantly plays at times with time and transience, light and dark, intoxication and dream, death and rebirth, America and Europe, parenting and parent anxiety. “

Eric Min – The Century of Brussels (The Busy Bee)

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Peter Vandermeersch the Brussels Book of Min:

“The most impressive recent book on Brussels is The Century of Brussels of the Flemish journalist and writer Eric Min. He talks about the 66 years between 1850 and 1914 which experienced its intellectual and artistic peak Brussels. Eric Min describes this artistic powder keg and laboratory where the new society took shape with taste and love, with an eye for detail, but also with enough distance and perspective. He poured Brussels that the city deserved: a biography of his finest centuries

Arjen Mulder – What is life (Querido)

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Arnold Heumakers about this essay published in honor of the Month of Philosophy:

“Mulder occurs know in these essays as an inveterate positivo who celebrates life as that “which gives us a total value not interested in our universe.” If we do not believe in yourself, who else, he would have thought. But then we have to nature and life should be interpreted as a meaningful, harmonious whole that appeals to us and inspires. It is the poetry of growth and manufacturability collapse which you also find in Romanticism, a natural philosopher like Schelling, a poet as Novalis and Mary Shelley’s husband Percy Shelley, who unstinted in his lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound (1820) sings the praises the harmony between humanity and nature ‘

Willem Otterspeer -. bust artist (The Busy Bee)

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Arjen Fortuin on Otter Bros. biography of WF Hermans:

“My guess is that the biographer sometimes might have to tell his whole story needs three parts. Then perhaps also reveals a tighter or other guidance than failure. Failure artist has the makings of a good, perhaps even excellent biography to be – but the book is not finished yet “

Nina Polak -. We will not crash store (Prometheus)

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Critic Janet Luis on the debut novel by Nina Polak (1986):

In this novel lacks something like a center, a core, a real problem. So stringing beautiful phrases and witty metaphors together to form a family story which occasionally morphed, but it mostly makes me a somewhat amorphous impression. “

K. Boaters – for you (Querido)

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Arjen Fortuin on the novel by Schippers:

“Illness and death of Henk and Gerard ‘form the connective For you. That book is much like a ‘normal’ Skipper Bundle, with his highly personal mix of story and essay – but you can not escape to read it as a requiem. Not anecdotal sense – so much do not you come to know about the dead – but in the literary way Schippers with outflanking movement ends again and again with his friends. However you define it: For you, has become “a very nice very sad book

Arie Storm – Listen how the houses breathe (Prometheus)

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Arjen Fortuin over

Listen how houses ademe n is a book that constantly keeps moving, quite apart from the fact that the amused detachment which Storm writes about the life of Voois, pleasant to read. Everything is an illusion, so much is clear. But the poetics implies that the distance is eventually difficult to distinguish from disinterest ‘

Peter Terrin -. Monte Carlo (The Busy Bee)

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Arjen Fortuin on the sixth novel by AKO-prize winner Peter Terrin (1968):

“You do not even have to make a list for Peter Terrin belongs to the handful of really interesting Dutch writers. Monte Carlo is the lightest novel Terrin wrote so far and probably the most accessible

Peter Vermeersch -. Ex (The Busy Bee)

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Manon Uphoff on Ex :

“The first chapters of Ex still cracking under the weight of someone who wants to be like duider and therefore gives many facts and history. But soon leads Vermeersch ‘critical reflection to provocative insights about war and masculinity. [..] Of course, Ex is not complete, but lurks a larger, clever insight made whole in which memories and stories of ordinary people mix with bigger stories

Frank Westerman – Stik Valley (The Busy Bee)

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Whipped Jaeger on Stik Valley :

Stik Valley is a successful book with flaws. Vanity is this time no question, enthusiasm is paramount. The search for and collect the stories was an excellent plan that has worked very well, especially because it is a disaster which is in the land itself scarcely more attention. The victims then still can not return to the place and the stories surrounding it are cut off as much as possible. Fortunately Westerman has collected them. “

Ceremony on November 13 at Crossing Border

The shortlist (top list), with 6 titles, is on Friday, September 26th bekendgemaaakt in Nieuwsuur. The award ceremony will take place on Thursday, November 13th at a special Crossing Border evening in which the nominated authors will be interviewed by journalist Wim Brands

The jury of the AKO Literature Prize 2014 consists of:. Job Cohen (Chairman ), Karl van den Broeck, freelance book journalist, Whipped Jaeger, editor NRC Handelsblad , Danielle Serdijn, reviewer Volkskrant , Veerle Vanden Bosch, chef books Standard and Joost de Vries, editor The Green Amsterdam . Next to a sculpture of Eugene Peters The author of the winning book receives a sum of € 50,000.

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