Bart van Es

Bart van Es (born June 7, 1972 in Ede ) is a Dutch-British literary scholar.

Life

Bart van Es received his PhD from Cambridge University with a dissertation on Edmund Spenser . Van Es is a Fellow, Senior Tutor and Professor of English Literature at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University . He publishes on the history of English language and literature in the Renaissance and modern times.

As part of his own family history, van Es researched a biography of Lien de Jong, who came into the care of his grandparents in August 1942 at the age of eight in the German-occupied Netherlands, when her parents were imprisoned as Jews and murdered by the Germans in Auschwitz . The book received the biography prize of the 2018 Costa Book Awards and was also the 30,000 £ doped Costa Book of the Year . It has been translated several times.

See also

• Nationaal Onderduikmuseum , a museum about people in hiding during the German occupation 1940–1945

Fonts (selection)

• Spenser's forms of history. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-19-924970-9 .
• A critical companion to Spenser studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2006, ISBN 1-4039-2027-3 .
• Shakespeare in company. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-956931-1 .
• His Fellow Actors. In: Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells (eds.): The Shakespeare circle: an alternative biography. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-05432-5 , pp. 261-274.
• Shakespeare's comedies: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-19-872335-6 .
• The Cut Out Girl: a story of War and Family, Lost and Found . Penguin, 2018, ISBN 978-0-7352-2224-3 .
  • Vergeet-mij-niet. Over het hidden leven van een Joods meisje. Translation by René van Veen. De bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2018, ISBN 978-94-031-1820-8 .
  • The girl with the poetry album . Translation by Silvia Morawetz and Theresia Übelhör. DuMont, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-8321-9856-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Bart van Es in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Bart van Es in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Bart van Es , at Oxford University
• The hidden story of a family , publisher's announcement at DuMont
• Bart van Es , publisher's announcement at Penguin (en)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ born te Ede, op 1972-06-07 (kleinzoon van SDAP'er / bankwerker te Dordrecht, Henk van Es, who in aug. 1942 samen met zijn Echtgenote Jannigje, het joodse meisje Lientje de Jong (1933-) as onderduikster opnam in hun gezin) according to VIAF
2. ↑ British Costa Literature Prize for Bart van Es , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on January 30, 2019.