Jeroen Brouwers

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Jeroen (Godfried Marie) Brouwers (born April 30, 1940 in Batavia, now Jakarta ) is a Dutch journalist , writer and essayist . Brouwers lives in Zutendaal , Belgium.

Jeroen Brouwers (2010)

Born in the Dutch East Indies , today's Indonesia , he was interned with his mother and grandparents after the Japanese invasion of Java in 1943. The grandparents did not survive internment. In 1947 his mother returned to the Netherlands with him. From 1950 on, Brouwers spent several years in Catholic boarding schools. In 1955 he finished school in Delft , did his military service from 1958 to 1961 and then began a journalistic career.

Since 1961 Brouwers emerged as a writer. His oeuvre includes more than 70 publications. In Germany, among others, “Versunkenes Rot” (1984; translation: Grete Weil ) and “Geheime Zimmer” (2002) were published. Brouwers is considered one of the most important contemporary Dutch authors.

Brouwers was accepted into the "Orde van de Vlaamse Leeuw" (Order of the Flemish Lion) in 1992 and was awarded the Belgian Order of the Crown in 1993 .

In 2007 he was awarded the Dutch literature prize “ Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren ”, which he declined in view of the low endowment ( € 16,000 ): “It's as if I now hear: Here, buy yourself a beer, dude. “In 2001, however, he accepted the Gouden Uil literary prize, endowed with 25,000 euros . In 2015 he received the ECI Literature Prize for the novel Het Hout ( Das Holz ).

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SURNAME Brouwers, Jeroen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brouwers, Jeroen Godfried Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Batavia