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Writer Rob van Essen has received the Libris Literature Prize 2024 for his novel I’ll come once more 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 12 months.
It’s the second time that Van Essen (60) has acquired the celebrated award. He additionally received it in 2019 for his novel The Good Son.
I’ll come once more to this: it’s a ebook “of outstanding high quality”, says the jury. The primary character within the novel, journalist Rob Hollander, can journey once more in time to right a previous mistake. The jury mentioned it was “shocked by the ingenious construction” of the story. “The author takes us to the previous and writes exceptionally graphically regarding what occurs to the principle character. The ebook comprises many absurd conditions, as we now have come to anticipate from this author, however greater than different instances, the whole lot is now completely deliberate.”
Six nominees
“We’re celebrating fiction right here tonight, however outdoors these doorways there’s a large quantity of non-fiction happening on all the planet,” Van Essen mentioned following his win. “It looks like a parallel world,” he additional mentioned 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 12 months, the Libris Literature Prize went to Anjet Daanje for her novel The Track of Stork and Dromedary.
