Jan De Leeuw

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Jan De Leeuw (born May 21, 1968 in Aalst ) is a Flemish psychologist and writer.

Life

Jan De Leeuw lives and works in Ghent. He writes books for young people . Several of his books have been published in German translation. Schrödinger, Dr. Linda and a corpse in the cold store (2010) received a nomination for the German Youth Literature Prize in 2011. In 2012 he was a member of the jury for the award The Extraordinary Book of the children and youth program of the Berlin International Literature Festival .

Press review

Schrödinger, Dr. Linda and a corpse in the cold store

“Through metafictional narrator comments and slapstick elements, the reader experiences the emotional chaos, sometimes in the middle, sometimes from a distance: grief, care, being in love, perplexity - the whole panorama. The puberty story told in this tragicomic novel impresses with its light tone, which Rolf Erdorf translated into German sensitively and with great skill. "

- Jury of the German Youth Literature Prize : 2011

“We live in a tidy country of drawers and compartments and now also cold stores (...) We name, we divide, we like to sort. (...) So what to do with a youth book that slaps, cheats, exaggerates, ironizes, parodies, that makes no sense at all, is certainly not instructive, and that if it is ultimately supposed to untangle the wildly intertwined threads of the plot, his Dismiss protagonists (and their readers) with a simple 'let's see'? What to do with a text that deliberately overcomes the boundaries of the genre in terms of content and form, that does not ask long questions, but makes it easy (and prefers to do what is not allowed)? What to do with a story that doesn't have a solution (...) The answer is: don't ask unnecessary questions, don't want simple answers, just read, laugh and wonder! "

- The world

Kingfisher summer

“It is very fortunate that another book by the author has been translated into German with Eisvogelsommer . For De Leeuw writes in artful prose; poetic, vivid and full of coherent images. [...] Not a single word, not a single sentence is too much. Time and again, De Leeuw transfers the plot into the fairytale-like of magical realism and lets it oscillate between reality, dream and fantasy. [...] Kingfisher Summer is ultimately a book that gives hope. A book that not only exposes young readers to the most elementary questions with full force. "

- Christoph Rieger : shy creatures

Awards

Works

  • translated into German:
    • 2006: The Silence of the Owls . Translation: Rolf Erdorf , Gerstenberg (Original: Vederland , 2004)
    • 2007: Night Land . Translation: Rolf Erdorf, Gerstenberg (Original: Het nachtland , 2005)
    • 2010: Red snow on Thorsteinhalla . Translation: Rolf Erdorf, Gerstenberg (Original: Rode sneeuw , 2007)
    • 2010: Schrödinger, Dr. Linda and a corpse in the cold store . Translation: Rolf Erdorf, Gerstenberg (Original: Bevroren Camera , 2009)
    • 2016: Kingfisher Summer . Translation: Rolf Erdorf, Gerstenberg (Original: Vijftien wilde zomers , 2012)
    • 2018: Babel . Translation: Rolf Erdorf, Verlag Freies Geistesleben (Original: Babel , 2015)
  • not translated into German:
    • 2006: Midzomernachtzee
    • 2018: De kleine koning (picture book, with illustrations by Mattias De Leeuw)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The page youth literature about "Schrödinger ..."
  2. ↑ on "Schrödinger ..." Welt Online
  3. ↑ Christoph Rieger: Shy beings . In: Die Zeit , No. 16/2016, p. 57.
  4. ↑ Youth Literature Prize
personal data
SURNAME De Leeuw, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian psychologist and author of books for young people
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Aalst