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    Lettipark: Erzählungen

    June 28, 2024
    Stel je een raar soort totalitaire toekomst voor waarin er maar één soort schrijven is toegestaan en jij verantwoordelijk zou worden gesteld om uit al die verschillende literaire smaken en stemmen er eentje te kiezen. Een onmogelijke en nachtmerrieachtige opgave natuurlijk, want de literatuur kan mij niet divers genoeg zijn en je kunt mij gerust een eclectische lezer noemen, maar als ik at gunpoint zo’n besluit zou moeten nemen, dan zou ik kiezen voor Judith Hermann. Zó moet je schrijven, denk ik bijna voortdurend als ik haar verhalen lees. Het literaire ligt er niet duimendik bovenop in haar werk, je ziet weinig metaforen en andere stijlbloempjes, en toch zou ik maar weinig schrijvers literairder willen noemen dan Hermann. Dat zit hem — uiteraard, zou ik haast willen zeggen — in alles wat niet gezegd wordt, in de rijke, betekenisvolle, oneindig subtiele kosmos áchter de kleine, haarscherpe, minutieuze verhaalwerelden van Hermann. En dan is er

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    Judith Hermann is celebrated for her sparse, subtle prose, in which the unspoken takes on as much weight as words. This comes to the fore in Home, an atmospheric novel set over the course of a year that will appeal to fans of Tove Jansson’s adult prose.

    Home is told in the first person, by a 47-year-old woman whose name we never learn. The book opens with the narrator recalling the events of thirty years ago. Whilst holding down a monotonous cigarette factory job, she had a chance encounter with an older man, a magician, at a petrol station. He offered her a job as his assistant, and she almost travelled to Singapore with him and his wife, but changed her mind at the last moment. Instead, her life took a different path; she married Otis, had a daughter and, after their daughter left home, separated from her husband.

    Now she lives alone in a small, dilapidated house in a village on the north German coast, and tries to settle into the unfamiliar, harsh landscape. Bo

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     Judith Hermann: “Daheim”

    Photo: © Michael WitteJudith Hermann was born in Berlin in 1970. Her debut book, Summer House, Later (1998), was greeted with great acclaim. The short-story collection Nothing but Ghosts followed in 2003. Some of these stories were adapted for film in 2007. In 2009 Hermann published the internationally acclaimed Alice, a collection of five short stories. In 2014 she brought out her first novel, Where Love Begins. This was followed in 2016 bygd the collection Lettipark, which won the Danish Blixen Prize for short stories. Hermann’s work has been honoured with numerous prizes, including the Kleist Prize and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. In spring 2021, she published the novel Home, which was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and awarded the Bremen Literature Prize 2022. Hermann lives and writes in Berlin. 

    Spiegel Bestseller and nominated for the 2021 Leipzig Book Fair Prize.