Tom Lanoye, Marita de Sterck and Peter Van Olmen on shortlist Golden Owl Awards

Five Flemish authors were longlisted for the Gouden Uil (Golden Owl) Awards, but only one of them, Tom Lanoye, made it on to the shortlist for Literary Fiction. Lanoye's novel, ‘Sprakeloos' (Speechless), published by Prometheus, is one of the five nominated titles which were announced on 15 March. In this autobiographical novel, Lanoye writes about the death of his mother, who lost her speech after a stroke.

Sprakeloos_Tom Lanoye_postzegel.jpgAll other nominees are also established authors:

 

  • Arnon Grunberg for ‘Kamermeisjes en soldaten' (Chambermaids and soldiers)
  • Cees Nooteboom for ‘'s Nachts komen de vossen' (The foxes come out at night)
  • Thomas Rosenboom for ‘Zoete mond' (Sweet mouth)
  • Mensje van Keulen for ‘Een goed verhaal' (A good story)

 

Two more Flemish authors are on the shortlist of the Golden Owl Award for Children's and Youth Literature: Marita de Sterck for ‘De hondeneters' (The dog eaters) and Peter Van Olmen for ‘De kleine Odessa' (Little Odessa). ‘De hondeneters' is a hard-boiled novel about World War I and the borders of humanity, in which a young epileptic named Victor starts a search for his missing sheepdog. Peter Van Olmen takes the reader to Scribopolis, a city where the worlds out of books comes alive and in which Odessa is trying to find her father.

 

The Dutch nominees are:

 

  • Marije Tolman and Ronald Tolman for ‘De boomhut' (The tree house)
  • Wouter van Reek for ‘Keepvogel/Het diepste gat' (Brambling/The deepest hole)
  • Ditte Merle for ‘Wild verliefd' (Madly in love)

 

The winners of the Golden Owl Awards will officially be announced in Antwerp on Sunday 25 April 2010.

 

published on: 2010-03-15

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