Gerbrand Bakker
Gerbrand Bakker (born April 28, 1962 in Wieringerwaard , Anna Paulowna municipality , Netherlands ) is a Dutch writer.
Life
Bakker grew up on a farm and studied linguistics in Amsterdam , worked as a translator of subtitles for nature films and has a degree in gardening . He has written plays, poems, scripts and books for adults and children. Pear trees bloom white was his first novel.
It's quiet upstairs
Bakker's debut novel Boven is het stil was published in 2006. The manuscript had not been accepted by the established Dutch publishers, but by Neuverlag Cossee. Its publisher Christoph Buchwald then edited an open ending to the plot . In 2008 the German translation of Oben ist quiet appeared and landed on the ORF best list a few weeks after it was published . The English-language edition entitled The Twin received the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2010 . The novel was filmed under the same English title in 2012 under the direction of Nanouk Leopold .
Works in German translation
- Pear trees bloom white (“Perenbomen bloeien wit”, 1999), youth novel, from the Dutch by Andrea Kluitmann, Patmos, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-491-37448-0
- It's quiet upstairs ("Boven is het stil", 2006), novel, from Dutch by Andreas Ecke, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-42013-3
- Days in June ("June", 2009), novel, from the Dutch by Andreas Ecke, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42139-0
- Funny birds. Animal diary ("Ezel, schaap en tureluur", 2009), short stories, from Dutch by Andreas Ecke. Insel, Berlin 2012
- Der detour , Roman, from Dutch by Andreas Ecke, Suhrkamp, Berlin 2012
- Jasper and his servant , Roman, from the Dutch by Andreas Ecke, Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016
Awards
- 2002: Silver air for pear trees bloom white
- 2006: Golden Dog-Ear for Above, it's quiet
- 2010: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Above It's Silent
- 2013: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Detour .
Web links
- Biography in the author's weblog (Dutch)
- Literature by and about Gerbrand Bakker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gerbrand Bakker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ TV.ORF, Culture
- ^ Project group literary images of old age: Analysis of Gerbrand Bakker's novel "Above it's still"
- ↑ A son fights for his own life , rp-online.de of June 13, 2013, accessed May 9, 2015
- ↑ 'Mesmeric' storytelling of The Detour secures £ 10,000 purse, shared with translator David Colmer , The Guardian, May 21, 2013, accessed June 30, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bakker, Gerbrand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wieringerwaard , Anna Paulowna parish , Netherlands |