Tommy Wieringa

Wieringa (2015)

Tommy Wieringa (born May 20, 1967 in Goor in the municipality of Hof van Twente , Overijssel province , Netherlands ) is a Dutch writer.

Life

Wieringa spent much of his youth in Aruba . He studied history and journalism at Utrecht University . According to his own statements, he earned his tuition as a lighter seller in markets and as a clerk on the Dutch railways.

Wieringa had his first award-winning success as a writer in 2005 with his development novel Joe Speedboot , having previously published three novels. He wrote the script for the episode Laatste Wolf from the television series Goede daden bij daglicht for the public radio and television broadcaster VPRO . He wrote several radio plays for the Catholic radio station KRO . As a journalist he worked for the daily newspapers De Volkskrant and Rails as well as the political weekly Vrij Nederland . Some of his columns have been published in the free newspapers De Pers and Sp! Ts and the satirical student newspaper Propria Cures , among others .

With the music group Donskoy Wieringa experimented with the interplay of poetry and music and released the CD Beatnik glorie. He also appeared as a lecturer at some festivals. In 2007 he was a guest poet at the Technical University of Delft .

In 2010 Wieringa wrote the dictation Kakofonie for the Belgian-Flemish / Dutch spelling competition Groot Dictee of the Nederlandse Taal . The winner of the competition was Pieter van Diepen.

His novel Santa Rita , published in German in August 2019, portrays the life and inner workings of the "losers" in the remote rural areas of the Netherlands. When the protagonist's only friend in his own house is the victim of a brutal robbery, the perceived “standstill” of the “shrinking region” begins to move. For the novel, which was published in the original language in 2017, he received the Dutch BookSpot Literature Prize 2018 in the category of both critics and readers.

Prizes and awards

• 2018: BookSpot Literatuurprijs for De heilige Rita
• 2014: De Inktaap for Dit zijn de namen
• 2013: Libris Literatuur Prijs for Dit zijn de namen
• 2009: Nomination for the AKO Literatuurprijs for Caesarion
• 2006: F. Bordewijk-prijs for narrative prose for his novel Joe Speedboot
• 2006: Tzumpreis for Joe Speedboat
• 2006: DIXI Children's Literature Prize for Joe Speedboot
• 2002: Halewijn Prize for Everything over Tristan

Nominations

• 2013: Euregio student literature prize for The Prodigal Son
• 2009: Euregio student literature prize for Joe Speedboot. No time for heroes
• 2009: Halewijn Prize for Caesarion
• 2002: AKO Literatuurprijs (shortlist) for Alles over Tristan

Works

• Dormantique's manco. Novel. Knipscheer, Amsterdam 1995 ISBN 90-6265-410-X
• Amok. Novel. Knipscheer, Amsterdam 1997 ISBN 90-6265-442-8
• Everything about Tristan. Novel. De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2002 ISBN 90-234-0027-5
• Pleidooi voor de potscherf. Travel notes. Uitgeverij Reservaat, 2005 ISBN 90-74113-17-6
• Joe speed boat. Novel. De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2005 ISBN 90-234-1433-0
  • Translator Bettina Bach: Joe Speedboat. No time for heroes . Hanser, Munich 2006 ISBN 3-446-20770-8 ; again dtv, Munich 2009 ISBN 978-3-423-13729-4
• Ik was nooit in Isfahaan, travel story, also published under the title De familie onderweg . De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2006 ISBN 978-90-234-3787-1
• De dynamica van coveted . De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2007 ISBN 978-90-234-2597-7
• Mister, 30 minutes. Supplement to the six-pack of Jan Grand Prestige beer. 2008
• De boom. As told on Bakenesser Avond on January 21, 2008. 2008
• with Aart Broek: Treating mead, homage to Boeli van Leeuwen. Knipscheer, Haarlem 2008 ISBN 978-90-6265-596-0
• Caesarion . De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2009 ISBN 978-90-234-2997-5
  • Übers. Bettina Bach: The prodigal son . Hanser Verlag, Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-446-23567-0
• Ga niet naar zee . De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2010 ISBN 978-90-234-5802-9
• Portret van een heer . Short story. Uitgeverij B for Books, series “Literaire juweeltjes”, 2011
  • Übers. Bettina Bach: Nobody's master, nobody's servant . Hanser Box ISBN 978-3-446-24992-9
• This is the name . Novel. De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2012 ISBN 978-90-234-7328-2
  • Übers. Bettina Bach: These are the names . Hanser, Munich 2016 ISBN 978-3-446-24739-0
• Een mooie jonge vrouw. Novel. Stichting Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek, Amsterdam 2014 ISBN 978-90-5965-234-7 ( Boekenweek present 2014)
  • Übers. Bettina Bach: A beautiful young woman . Hanser, Munich 2015 ISBN 978-3-446-24788-8
  • in paperback by dtv, Munich 2016 ISBN 978-3-423-14507-7
• Honorair Kozak . De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2015 ISBN 978-90-234-8625-1
• Vrouwen van de wereld . De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2016 ISBN 978-90-234-4836-5
• with Jeroen Kooijmans: The Fish Pond Song . De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2016 ISBN 978-90-234-9656-4
• De leraar die mijn leven veranderde . Uitgeverij Thomas Rap, Amsterdam 2016 ISBN 978-94-004-0552-3
• De dood van Murat Idrissi . Hollands Diep, Amsterdam 2017 ISBN 978-90-488-3686-4
• De holy Rita . De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2017 ISBN 978-90-234-5875-3
  • Translator Bettina Bach: Santa Rita . Hanser, Munich 2019 ISBN 978-3-446-26391-8
• This is my fashion . Tommy Wieringa, Watergang 2019 ISBN 978-90-828830-0-8

Web links

• Author's website (English)
• Tommy Wieringa in the dbnl - digital library voor de Nederlandse letteren (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marten Hahn: Tommy Wieringa: "Santa Rita": Lonely together in the periphery , review on deutschlandfunkkultur.de from August 28, 2019, accessed August 29, 2019
2. ^ New Literature from the Netherlands , Brandenburgisches Literaturbüro, accessed August 29, 2019
3. ↑ Soundtrack included. Tommy Wieringa's dramatic family story. FAZ , September 14, 2011, p. 34
4. ↑ Tommy Wieringa: Nobody's master, nobody's servant , Hanser, accessed August 29, 2019
5. ^ Bach in the translator database of the VdÜ , 2019
6. ↑ Review: Thomas Schaefer, class books ... work on the "anger of the left lower classes". concrete , December 12, 2019, p. 47