Gerbrand Bakker (novelist)

Gerbrand Bakker ( born April 28, 1962 in Wieringerwaard, Anna Pavlovna community, The Netherlands) is a Dutch writer.

Life

Bakker grew up on a farm and studied language and literature in Amsterdam, worked as a translator of subtitles for nature films and has a diploma as a gardener. He wrote plays, poems, screenplays and books for adults and children. Pear trees bloom white is his first novel for young people.

Above all is quiet

Bakker's debut novel Boven is het style appeared in 2006. The manuscript was not accepted by the mainstream Dutch publishers, but from Neuverlag Cossee. Its publisher Christoph Buchwald had then proofreads the plot has an open ending. 2008 appeared above all is quiet in the German translation and landed a few weeks after his appearance on the ORF leaderboard. The Twin 2010 received in the English translation by David Colmer International IMPAC the highly doped Dublin Literary Award. The novel was made ​​into a film under the same title in 2012 under the direction of Nanouk Leopold.

Works in German translation

  • Pear trees bloom white ( " Perenbomen bloeien wit ", 1999 ), young adult novel, from the Dutch by Andrea Kluitmann, Patmos, Dusseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-491-37448-0
  • Upstairs there is still ( " Boven is het style ", 2006), novel, from the Dutch by Andreas corner, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-42013-3
  • Days in June ( " June," 2009), novel, from the Dutch by Andreas corner, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42139-0
  • Strange birds. Pet Diary ( " Ezel, schaap s Tureluur ", 2009), short stories, from the Dutch by Andreas corner. Island, Berlin 2012
  • The detour, novel, from the Dutch by Andreas corner, Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012
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