Adriaan van Dis

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Adriaan van Dis (2016)
Adriaan van Dis (1986)

Adriaan van Dis (born December 16, 1946 in Bergen , the Netherlands ) is a Dutch writer .

Life

youth

Adriaan van Dis was born in the Dutch village of Bergen in 1946. His parents, Marie van Dis and Victor Justin Mulder, met in Indonesia , the former Dutch East Indies. Marie van Dis already had three daughters from her first marriage. Adriaan van Dis's parents and siblings experienced the Japanese occupation of Dutch East India (1941–1949) up close. Adriaan van Dis was born in 1946 into a war-torn family that had only recently returned to Holland. Since he was the only one in the family who had not witnessed the war and life in India, he was the family's outsider. Even in the village of Bergen aan Zee, where the family shared an apartment with other members of the Dutch-East Indian community, he lacked the experience of the former colony in these surroundings. Adriaan van Dis got his mother's surname because his father was already married to another woman. Divorce from his wife was recognized under Islamic law, but not under Dutch law. In his youth this secret had to be kept and van Dis called himself Mulder to the outside world. With the beginning of his studies, however, he began to bear the name van Dis publicly.

education

After graduating from MULO, he trained as a teacher at the Rijkskweek School and then graduated from the Hogere Burger School (HBS). Adriaan van Dis then studied Dutch and Afrikaans at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.

Working life

author

After completing his studies, Van Dis opted for writing after a detour via literary journalism (with the cultural supplement of the daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad and with the Zaterdags Bijvoegsel ). His first work Nathan Sid was published in 1983. In 2008 van Dis participated in the International Literature Festival in Berlin. An important focus of his texts is the use of antitheses , in particular the representation of cultural and socio-economic differences. In addition, the main character often has the perspective of an outsider who has to learn to find his way around on a small scale (e.g. in his family) or in the big world (e.g. as a Dutchman in Africa or China). Adriaan van Dis has won several literary prizes . In addition to his literary work, van Dis occasionally publishes articles in daily newspapers, for example on the occasion of Queen Beatrix's resignation .

watch TV

From 1983 to 1992 van Dis had his own TV program on VPRO: Here is ... Adriaan van Dis . As a talk show host of this program, he received many domestic and foreign guests, such as Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Umberto Eco . The television show got the 1985 Nipkowschijf, an award for the best television show of the year. In recent years, van Dis has appeared every year as part of book week on the television program De wereld draait door , in which Here is ... Adriaan van Dis revives for a short time. In 2008 he made the television series Van Dis in Africa . For this series he got the Nipkowschijf again.

Adriaan van Dis in Germany

So far, four novels, two novellas and an essay by van Dis have been published in German by different publishers in Germany, and more works are planned. The works Indian Dunes , A Fine Gentleman and a Poor Dog and Nathan Sid have each been published twice. A fine and a poor dog also appeared as an audio book. This was read by August Zirner . Individual works have been published by Rowohlt Verlag, Elster Verlag and Corso Verlag. The Carl Hanser Verlag has released most of the works of van Dis, but the novels that will soon appear in Germany, will appear at Verlagsgruppe Droemer-Knaur. Most of the books were translated by Marlene Müller-Haas .

Works (selection)

German translations

Novels

  • (1993) A barbarian in China: a journey through Central Asia ( Frank Runge , transl.). Cologne: Volksblatt, ISBN 978-3926949165 . (Original work published 1987)
  • (1997) Indian dunes ( Mirjam Pressler , transl.). Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag. (Original work published 1994)
  • (2000) Indian dunes (M. Pressler, transl.) Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, ISBN 978-3446189263 . (Original work published 1994)
  • (2004) Double love, story of a young man ( Marlene Müller-Haas , transl.) Munich: Carl Hanser-Verlag, ISBN 978-3446204546 . (Original work published 1999)
  • (2009) A fine gentleman and a poor dog (M. Müller-Haas, transl.) Munich: Carl Hanser-Verlag, ISBN 978-3446209961 . (Original work published 2007)
  • (2012) A fine gentleman and a poor dog (M. Müller-Haas, Übers.) Munich: Carl Hanser-Verlag, ISBN 978-3446239449 . (Original work published 2007)
  • (2016) The hidden life of my mother (M. Müller-Haas, transl.) Munich: Droemer Knaur-Verlag, ISBN 978-3426281628 . (Original work Ik kom terug published 2014)

Appear in the future

  • (Date still unknown) Translation by Familieziek

Novellas

  • (1988) Nathan Sid (S. Mrotzek, transl.). Moos / Baden-Baden: Elster Verlag, ISBN 978-3891510483 . (Original work published 1983)
  • (1996) Nathan Sid (S. Mrotzek, transl.). Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, ISBN 978-3446178922 . (Original work published 1983)
  • (2000) Palm wine or love for Africa (M. Müller-Haas, transl.) Munich: Carl Hanser-Verlag, ISBN 978-3446198647 . (Original work published 1996)

essay

  • (2011) Under the Zinc Roofs (M. Müller-Haas, Übers.) Hamburg: Corso Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86260-027-4 . (Original work published 2004)

Original works

Novels

  • Een barbaar in China: een reis door Centraal Azië , 1987
  • Zilver of Het left van de onschuld , 1988
  • Het beloofde land: een reis door de Karoo , 1990
  • In Africa , 1991
  • Indian duins , 1994
  • Dubbelliefde. Divorcee van een jongeman , 1999
  • Familyziek , 2002
  • De wandelaar , 2007
  • Tikkop , 2010
  • Ik kom terug , 2014

Novellas

  • Nathan Sid , 1983
  • De vraatzuchtige spreekt , 1986
  • De rat van Arras , 1986
  • Zoen , 1987
  • Palmwijn , 1996 (present from the Dutch book week - Boekenweek present )
  • Op oorlogspad in Japan , 2000

stories

  • Een bord met spaghetti , 1984
  • Casablanca , 1986
  • Een keuze uit mijn vrolijke doodsgedachten , 1988
  • De man uit het Noorden , 1992
  • Waar twee olifanten vechten - Mozambique in oorlog , 1992
  • Classics , 1993
  • Wij, Koningin , 1995
  • Een waarze sat , 1997
  • Vrijtaal , 2003
  • Leeftocht. veertig jaar onderweg , 2007
  • Het mussenjong , 2011
  • Jammer , 2014

Plays

  • Tropical Jars. De zaak , 1986
  • Komedie om geld, Een uur in de wind , 1988

various

  • Everything is cooperative , manifesto
  • The Shell , special edition, 1992
  • Noord-Zuid: Een Modern Sprookjes , Modern Fairy Tale, 1994
  • Een deken van herinnering , essay, 1998
  • Totok , Poetry, 1998
  • Onder het zinc. Un abécédaire de Paris . Essay, 2004
  • Op de televisie , Memories, 2007
  • Van Dis in Africa , documentary series, 2008
  • Totok II , poetry, 2008
  • Stadsliefde, scènes in Parijs , 2011
  • Van Dis in Indonesië , documentary series, 2012
  • Het laatste boeket , Homage, 2013

Awards

  • 1985 Golden Dog-Ear for Nathan Sid
  • 1994 De Nieuwe Clercke-Pico Bello-prijs (Ten guilders and a poem) for his contributions to Dutch literature
  • 1995 Golden Book Owl for Indian Duinen
  • 1995 Trouw Publieksprijs for Indian Duinen
  • 2007 Groenman-taalprijs of the LOUT Foundation, a subsidiary of the Onze Taal cooperative, because of his humorous and creative use of language
  • 2009 Gouden Ganzenveer for his contributions to Dutch literature
  • 2015 Libris Literatuur Prijs for Ik kom terug
  • 2015 Constantijn Huygensprijs for his complete works
  • 2016 Luisterboek Award

Nominations

Web links

Commons : Adriaan van Dis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sars, Prof. Dr. P. (1996). Adriaan van Dis. De zandkastelen van je jeugd. Nijmegen: Uitgeverij SUV, 9-16.
  2. ↑ MULO is an abbreviation for 'Meer uitgebreid lager onderwijs'. It was a form of continuing education that was legally included in primary education.
  3. ↑ Sars, Prof. Dr. P. (1996). Adriaan van Dis. De zandkastelen van je jeugd. Nijmegen: Uitgeverij SUV, 135.
  4. ^ About Queen Beatrix in the NZZ of April 30, 2013
  5. ↑ Sars, Prof. Dr. P. (1996). Adriaan van Dis. De zandkastelen van je jeugd. Nijmegen: Uitgeverij SUV, 29-30.
  6. ↑ http://nipkowschijf.nl/van-dis-afrika/#more-145 Nipkowschijf, accessed on March 14, 2016.
  7. ↑ Sars, Prof. Dr. P. (1996). Adriaan van Dis. De zandkastelen van je jeugd. Nijmegen: Uitgeverij SUV, 135-136.
  8. ↑ http://dewerelddraaitdoor.vara.nl/gasten/adriaan-van-dis De wereld draait door, accessed on March 14, 2016.
  9. ↑ In the Netherlands there is a week once a year in which books by Dutch authors are sponsored. During this week every person who buys a book by a Dutch author will receive a free book that has been written for this purpose by a well-known author.
personal data
SURNAME Dis, Adriaan van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergen (North Holland)