Abdelkader Benali

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Abdelkader Benali (2011)

Abdelkader Benali (born November 25, 1975 in Ighazzazen , Morocco ) is a Dutch writer .

Life

Benali spent the first four years of his childhood in Morocco before he followed his father to the Netherlands with his mother. He worked as a butcher in Rotterdam . The family moved several times within Rotterdam. The family later moved to Amsterdam . He learned and speaks the Berber language as well as the Dutch language in his family . He began to write pieces in Dutch at a very early age and thus took part in various competitions. He won the Kunstbende Prize and the Arabic Arts Center El Hizjra Prize, among others . He also won first prize from the University of Leiden for an essay entitled Vernieuwing als traditie , which enabled him to study for one year free of charge at the University of Leiden. There he studied history.

Benali not only writes novels , plays, and essays , but also articles and reviews for various newspapers . He writes in Switzerland for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and in the Netherlands for the Algemeen Dagblad , De Groene Amsterdammer , Esquire , de Volkskrant and Vrij Nederland . At the age of 21 his debut novel Hochzeit am Meer appeared (Dutch original title: Bruiloft aan zee ), which was nominated for the Libris Literature Prize. However, he only received this award in 2003 for his second novel De langverwachte . Also in the 2003 competition for this award was the Gstaad 95-98 work by Marek van der Jagt alias Arnon Grunberg . Like Grunberg , Abdelkader Benali has also admitted to having written two works under a pseudonym , but these are not yet known.

In 2006 he was in Lebanon . There he was surprised by the outbreak of the Israeli-Lebanese war . He documented his impressions as a witness of this conflict in a weblog for the newspaper Vrij Nederland .

Works

Dutch original title

  • 1996: Bruiloft aan zee , debut novel,
published in several languages ​​and countries including England , the United States , Spain , France , Denmark , Greece and
in Germany under the title Hochzeit am Meer .
In 1997 he received the Geertjan Lubberhuizenprijs and in 1999 the Prix ​​de Meilleur Premier Roman Etranger
  • 1999 De Ongelukkige , play, also available as a book
  • 2001 Reports uit Maanzaad Stad , collection of stories
  • 2001 Yasser ( Jasser ), theater monologue, also available as a book
  • 2002 De Argentijn ( Rotterdam's Leescadeau )
  • 2002 De langverwachte , Roman, Libris Literature Prize 2003
  • 2003 Onrein, de vader, de zoon en de hond
  • 2003 Poems voor de zomer , poems (part 5 in the series De Sandwich-reeks, edited by Gerrit Komrij )
  • 2004 De Malamud-roman , Roman, published as a special edition by Libris bookselling company
  • 2005 Laat het morgen mooi weer zijn , Roman (English title: May the Sun Shine Tomorrow )
  • 2005 Morocco door Nederlandse ogen 1605–2005, verslag van een reis door de tijd ( Herman Obdeijn )
  • 2006 Panacee , poems
  • 2006 Wie kan het paradijs weerstaan , correspondence with Michaël Zeeman
  • 2006 Reports uit een belegerde stad , collected reports from Beirut
  • 2006 Feldman en ik , Roman (English title: Feldman and I )
  • 2007 De eeuwigheidskunstenaar (homage to Harry Mulisch , on his eightieth birthday)
  • 2007 Marathonloper , Roman

Web links and sources

In Dutch

personal data
SURNAME Benali, Abdelkader
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Ighazzazen , Morocco