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Product details of THE DISCOMFORT OF EVENING

AUTHOR:MARIEKE LUCAS RIJNEVELD

PUBLISHER:FABER

ISBN:9780571349371

FORMAT:PB

LANGUAGE:ENGLISH

Marieke Lucas Rijneveld(b. 1991) grew up in a Reformed farming family in North Brabant before moving to Utrecht. One of the most exciting new voices in Dutch literature, their poetry collection,, was awarded the C. Buddingh' Prize for best poetry debut in 2015, with the newspaper de Volkskrant calling them literary talent of the year. In 2018, Atlas Contact published their first novel,, which was a national bestseller as well as being nominated for the Libris Literature Prize and winning the prestigious ANV Debut Prize. The UK edition won the 2020 International Booker Prize. Alongside their writing career, Rijneveld works on a dairy farm.