Ernest van der Kwast
Ernest Roelof Arend van der Kwast (born January 1, 1981 in Bombay , India ) is a Dutch author and journalist .
Life
Van der Kwast has an Indian mother and a Dutch father. The family moved to the Netherlands in his youth. The boy went to school there and achieved national importance in sport with his achievements in the discus throw . However, he gave up the sport and studied economics .
Van der Kwast published a collection of short stories and a novel using two pseudonyms before his breakthrough as a writer in 2010 with the novel Mama Tandoori , in which his mother Veena plays the main role in the family history. At that time he was editor-in-chief of the Dutch literary magazine Passionate Magazine and organized literary events . In 2011 and 2012 he was featured with a satirical column in the internet edition of the Dutch evening newspaper NRC Handelsblad .
Van der Kwast lived and worked with his partner and two children in Bolzano in South Tyrol , but today the family lives in Amsterdam again . He has written two other novels that have also been published in German.
Publications
- Collection of stories by various authors under the pseudonym “Yusef el Halal”: Man zoekt vrouw om hem gelukkig te maken , 2004.
- Soms zijn dingen mooier als er mensen flap , 2005.
- under the pseudonym “Sieger Sloot”: Stand-in , 2007.
- Mama Tandoori , novel, 2010.
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Giovanna's navel , Roman, 2012.
- German by Andreas Ecke : Five quarters of an hour to the sea . mare-Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86648-205-0 .
- as paperback: btb, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-442-71419-3 .
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De ijsmakers , novel, 2015.
- German by Andreas Ecke: Die Eismacher , Roman, btb-Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-442-75680-3 .
Web links
- Author's website (nl.)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kwast, Ernest van der |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kwast, Ernest Roelof Arend van der (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch author and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bombay , India |