Bram Dehouck
Bram Dehouck (born May 2, 1978 in Poperinge , Belgium ) is a Flemish author , who was known and distinguished for his crime novels .
Life
Dehouck grew up in the south of West Flanders , in rural Poperinge. After attending the Sint-Stanislascollege , he initially pursued artistic training at the Catholic art college in Ghent . He then studied journalism . Since 2002 he has been working as communications manager at the health insurance company “Landsbond der Christelijke Mutualiteiten” (CM).
In 2007 Dehouck began his writing with the factual novel Het meisje dat vergeet , a story about his sister Gertrude who suffered from amnesia after a serious traffic accident . With De minzame moordenaar , his first detective novel, he made a very successful debut in 2010: for the best novel of the year he was awarded the Dutch literary prize Gouden Strop and for the best first novel with the Schaduwprijs . “A debut that immediately proves championship,” said the Gouden Strop jury. Dehouck achieved another success in 2012 with Een zomer zonder slaap (German: A summer without sleep) . The detective novel also won the Gouden Strop and was nominated for the Belgian Hercule Poirot Prize .
Works
Detective novels
- 2009 De Minzame moordenaar
- 2011 Een zomer zonder slaap
- German: Summer without sleep . btb, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-74670-5 .
- 2012 Hellekind
- German: The psychopath . btb, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-442-71330-1 .
Other
- 2007 - Het meisje dat vergeet
Awards
- 2010 Gouden Strop for De minzame moordenaar
- 2010 Schaduwprijs for De minzame moordenaar
- 2012 Gouden Strop for Een zomer zonder slaap (German summer without sleep . Btb, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-74670-5 )
See also
- List of crime writers
- List of Belgian writers
- Belgian literature section "Dutch literature in Belgium"
Web links
- Literature by and about Bram Dehouck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography on wordpress.com (Dutch)
- Bram Dehouck on crimezone.nl (Dutch)
- Interview by Jeroen Beghin with Bram Dehouck (Dutch)
Notes / Notes
- ↑ also: Saint-Stanislas-College
- ↑ cf. Report in the volkskrant of May 31, 2012 (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dehouck, Bram |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian-Flemish crime writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poperinge ( Flanders Region ), Belgium |