Lize Spit

Lize Spit (2016)

Lize Spit (born 1988 in Viersel ) is a Belgian Flemish language writer .

Life

Lize Spit grew up in the Kempen countryside . She studied scenic writing at the RITCS (Hoger Rijks Instituut voor Toneel en Cultuurspreiding) at the Erasmushogeschool Brussel . In 2013 she won both the jury award and the audience award at the young talent competition Write Now! For her story ordehandhaver . . She publishes literary articles in the magazines Tirade , Het lying konijn and De Gids .

Just in time for the start of the Dutch book publisher Das Mag , she had finished her 480-page debut novel Het smelt . The novel became a bestseller in Belgium and the Netherlands in 2016 with 160,000 copies sold. The Belgian production company Menuet acquired the film rights to the novel in 2016, for which Spit was awarded the Lucy B. en CW van der Hoogtprijs in 2018 .

Works

• Het smelt . Amsterdam: The Mag, 2016
  • And it melts . Translation of Helga van Beuningen . S. Fischer, 2017
• Contribution in: DAS MAG - The Best-of: Young literature from Flanders and the Netherlands . Hamburg: mairisch Verlag, 2016

literature

• Fabian Busch: The youth, a terrible imposition . Review, in: NZZ, November 4, 2017, p. 24

Web links

• Literature by and about Lize Spit in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Lize Spit in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Lize Spit at perlentaucher.de
• Lize Spit , website
• Daniel Beskos: "I went in full": Lize Spit, author , interview, at mairisch Verlag , February 17, 2016
• Lize Spit in an interview with Katharina Borchardt: "There is something dark about it" In: www.taz.de, December 9, 2017: "The debut novel by young Flämin Lize Spit," And it melts ", is a dark village story from Belgium. Spit tells of rural alcoholism and powerful youthful eroticism - experiences that eventually get out of hand "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Literair talent Lize Spit wint Write Now! 2013 , near Taalunie, June 23, 2013 (nl)