Leo Pleysier

Leo Pleysier ( born May 28, 1945 in Rijkevorsel, Belgium ) is a Dutch-speaking writer from Belgium. He was born in Rijkevorsel, a village in the Antwerp Kempen, where he worked for several years as a primary school teacher and still lives today.

In his narrative work, he examines his relationship with his birthplace and his relatives. Anxiety, loneliness, warm nest, violence, the changing zeitgeist, isolation and connectedness between people are some recurring themes. Pleysiers novels are Emblemata the ' human condition '. They contain between lines also time and social criticism.

Pleysiers first books ( Mirliton and rivet dan schreeuw ) are, what language and structure is concerned, experimental in nature and I - oriented. Gradually, the author has expanded his horizons: from their own region Waar ik weer what? to England ( Shimmy ), Africa ( Zwart van het folk ), India and China ( De Gele Rivier is bevrozen, De trousse ).

Wit is altijd schoon (1989 ), in which he can weiterplaudern his garrulous mother after her death, was the breakthrough the audience. Typical language spoken here is brought gently to Scripture. She gets musical-rhythmic quality. Wit is altijd schoon was nominated for the AKO Literature Prize in 1989 and received the Bordewijkprijs 1990.

This was followed by De kast (1991 ), De Gele Rivier is bevrozen (1993) and Volgend años in Berchem ( 2000), in which are a sister, an aunt, a nun, and the Father in the center. De Dieven zijn al gaan slapen (2003 ) is a mixture of autobiographical and poetikaler fragments. De Gele Rivier is bevrozen was awarded the Belgian Driejaarlijkse Staatsprijs. Was published in 2004, the amendment De trousse which again has a nun as the main character, 2007, the Roman De Latino's about a Flemish development worker couple in Latin America. In the novel Dieperik (2010), which follows on from a childhood memory, a story is told, which should actually be concealed. The story collection De zoon, de maan en de sterren (2014) interweaves motifs such as security and threat, the local and the global.

Works (selection)

• The Yellow River is frozen ( Yale University Press 1997). in paperback: Rowohlt, Reinbek 1997, ISBN 3-499-22320-1.