Tommy Wieringa

Tommy Wieringa ( born May 20, 1967 at Goor hamlet in the municipality of Hof van Twente, Overijssel Province, Netherlands) is a Dutch writer.

Life

Wierienga spent much of his youth in the West Indies. He studied history and journalism at the University of Utrecht. According to his own statements, he earned his money as a study Lighter seller at markets and as a teller at the Dutch Railways.

Wieringa had in 2005 with his novel Joe Speedboat his first award-winning success as a writer, after he had previously been published three novels. For the public radio and television stations VPRO he wrote the script for the episode Laatste Wolf from the TV series Goede Daden bij Daglicht. For the Catholic radio station KRO (Catholic Radio Omroep ) he wrote several radio plays. As a journalist he worked among others for the newspapers De Volkskrant and rails as well as the political weekly magazine Vrij Nederland. Some of his columns have been published among others in the free newspaper De Pers and Sp! Ts as well as the satirical student newspaper Propria Cures.

With the music group Donskoy Wieringa experimented with the interplay of poetry and music and released the CD Beatnik glorie. Furthermore, he stepped on some festivals as a lecturer. In 2007 he was Gastpoet at the Technical University of Delft.

2010 wrote Wieringa the dictation cacophony for the belgisch-flämisch/niederländischen spelling bee Groot Dictee the Nederlandse Taal. Winner of the competition was Pieter van Diepen.

Prizes and awards

  • 2002: Halewijnpreis for all over Tristan
  • 2002: Selection list for the AKO Literatuurprijs over for Everything Tristan
  • 2006: Ferdinand Bordewijk - Prijs for narrative prose for his novel Joe Speedboat
  • 2006: Tzumprijs for Joe Speedboat
  • 2006: DIXI Children's Literature Award for Joe Speedboat
  • 2009: nominated for the AKO Literaturprijs for Caesarion
  • Name Libris Literature Prijs for Dit zijn de: 2013

Works

  • German: The Prodigal Son, translated by Bettina Bach, Hanser Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-446-23567-0.
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