Gustaaf Peek

Gustaaf Peek, Festival of Literature 2015

Gustaaf Peek (* 1975 in Haarlem ) is a Dutch writer , photographer and journalist .

Life

Peek studied English Language and Literature at Leiden University . Then he completed an apprenticeship as a photographer. Initially he wrote poems and short stories that appeared in various Dutch magazines such as Tzum , De Tweede Ronde, Lava and Nymph.

He published his first novel Armin in 2006 at Atlas Contact in Amsterdam . The novel is about the racial ideology in the National Socialist Third Reich . The Lebensborn Association, supported by the SS , aimed to increase the fertility rate of “ Aryan ” children on the basis of National Socialist racial hygiene and health ideology. It tells the story of the young SS soldier Armin Immendorf, who is employed as an obstetrician in a Lebensborn home.

Peek's second novel Dover was published by Querido-Verlag in 2008 . The starting point is the port of Dover, where in June 2000 British customs opened the hold of a Dutch truck from Rotterdam and found 58 dead Chinese there. There are only two survivors among the victims of this human trafficking . The novel is about people who are pushed to the margins of society, about flight, exploitation and life in illegality, about asylum and forced prostitution. The novel Dover was nominated for the Halewijn Prize and the BNG Nieuwe Literatuurprijs in 2008.

The novel Ik was Amerika (I was America) is set like Armin in the time of the Second World War . The main character, Dirk Winter, is fighting for the German army in North Africa. He is captured by the Allies and taken to a POW camp in South America. There he befriends Harris, whom he would like to meet in America more than thirty years later. For the novel Peek was awarded the BNG Nieuwe Literatuurprijs and the F. Bordewijk-prijs .

In October 2014, Peek's fourth novel Godin, held was published, which will appear in German (Göttin und Held) in August 2016. The author was shortlisted for the prestigious Libris Literature Prize for the novel . The story of a love between Tessa and Marius is told from end to beginning. It's about the metaphysical mystery of what love is between a man and a woman. Is love a dream or a reality, or is it self-deception?

From 2010 to 2015 Peek was editor of the literary magazine De Revisor in Amsterdam.

The author lives and works in Amsterdam. He has a daughter with his wife.

Works

Novels

• 2014: Godin, hero
• 2010: Ik was Amerika
• 2008: Dover
• 2006: Armin

stories

• De val van Kattenburg , in: Het land binnen de muren. Daan Heerma van Vos, Allard Schröder, Niña Weijers , Carolina Trujillo, Gustaaf Peek, Verhalen uit het Marineterrein Amsterdam, Verlag Das Mag 2015. (Dutch)

Works in German

• 2016: goddess and hero . Translated into German by Nathalie Lemmens , Verlag DVA Munich, 336 pages, ISBN 978-3-421-04707-6 .

Awards

• 2011: F. Bordewijk-prijs for Ik was Amerika
• 2010: BNG Nieuwe Literatuurprijs for Ik was Amerika

Nominations

• 2015: Libris Literature Prize (shortlist) for Godin, held
• 2008: Halewijn Prize for Dover
• 2008: BNG Nieuwe Literatuurprijs for Dover

Trivia

Gustaaf Peeks grandfather was the grandson of the German-Dutch businessman Johann Theodor Peek , who in 1900 together with Heinrich Anton Adolph Cloppenburg the Peek et Cloppenburg GmbH in Dusseldorf was founded.

Web links

• Contributions for De Revisor , from: revisor.nl.
• Nick Muller: Self-Portrait Gustaaf Peek , from: hpdetijd.nl, November 10, 2014.
• Newspaper report on the writer Mijn vader zag het nut in van griezelen , from: volkskrant.nl, January 8, 2011.
• Interview with Wouter Bok and Daan Stoffelsen Schrijven is voor mij altijd stiekem een ​​beetje rock-en-rollen , from: recensieweb.nl, October 6, 2010.
• Interview with Kevin van Vliet Ik grijp elk excuus voor romantiek aan , from: hpdetijd.nl, February 6, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review by Daniëlle Serdijn, Godin, held had met een paar seksscènes less toegekund [1] , from: volkskrant.nl, October 25, 2014.
2. ↑ Review of Johan Bordewijk, Een zinnelijke started in kreeftengang [2] , from: recensieweb.nl, 9 November 2014.
3. ↑ Jury of the Libris Literature Prize on the book Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from librisprijs.nl. 
4. ↑ Review by Marleen Louter, Een foto van een afgrond [3] , from: recensieweb.nl, September 16, 2010.
5. ↑ press report from Arjen Fortuin, Gustaaf Peek wint Nieuwe Literatuurprijs [4] , from: nrc.nl, February 11, 2011.
6. ^ Review of Dover [5] , from: scholieren.com.
7. ↑ Review by Lotte Brugman, Prettig oppressive: een verrassend debuut [6] , from: recensieweb.nl, July 22, 2006.
8. ^ Jury report 2011 [7] , from: leesplein.nl.
9. ↑ Bob Hopman, Wouter Bok et al. Linda Ackermans, Streetwise, grof, absurd en rustgevend: juryrapport BNG Nieuwe Literatuurprijs 2010 Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from: recensieweb.nl, February 10, 2011. 
10. ↑ Article Daan Stoffelsen et al. Suzanne van der Beek Why Gustaaf Peek deserves the Libris Literature Prize Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from: recensieweb.nl, May 9, 2015. (Dutch) 
11. ↑ Peek prefers not to be associated with the family business. [8] , see: Report in: De Volkskrant , January 8, 2011.