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Creator Rob van Essen has gained the Libris Literature Prize 2024 for his novel I’ll come again to this. This was introduced by jury chairman Kim Putters on Monday night throughout a festive dinner at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam. The prize is awarded to one of the best unique Dutch-language novel of the previous yr.
It’s the second time that Van Essen (60) has acquired the distinguished award. He additionally gained it in 2019 for his novel The Good Son.
I’ll come again to this: it’s a ebook “of outstanding high quality”, says the jury. The primary character within the novel, journalist Rob Hollander, can journey again in time to appropriate a previous mistake. The jury stated it was “shocked by the ingenious construction” of the story. “The author takes us to the previous and writes exceptionally graphically about what occurs to the primary character. The ebook accommodates many absurd conditions, as we’ve come to count on from this author, however greater than different occasions, the whole lot is now completely deliberate.”
Six nominees
“We’re celebrating fiction right here tonight, however exterior these doorways there’s a large quantity of non-fiction going down on the whole planet,” Van Essen stated after his win. “It appears like a parallel world,” he additional stated of profitable the award twice.
The winner of the Libris Prize will obtain a money prize of fifty,000 euros. All six writers who have been nominated will every obtain 2,500 euros. Along with Van Essen, these are Cobi van Baars (The Unintentional), Sacha Bronwasser (Hear), Esther Gerritsen (Space 19), Frank Nellen (The Invisible) and Maud Vanhauwaert (Tosca).
Final yr, the Libris Literature Prize went to Anjet Daanje for her novel The Tune of Stork and Dromedary.
