My friend Merel and her boyfriend Benjamin, both very talented illustrators, have launched their website! You can find them at www.merel-benjamin.be.
I will also put the link in the sidebar under friends’n things if you want to have a look another time …
Annelies Verbeke is a dutch novelist. She writes about people in their daily life and enlarges the dark parts. The characters in her stories get carried away by their thoughts and get themselves into strange situations. While you are reading you definitely recognize certain thoughts and situations, altough her characters go quite far.
I read ‘Slaap!’ over one night, couldn’t sleep anyway. The insomnia in this book takes strange shapes. In general I sleep quite bad, but compared to the character in the book, I’m a happy woman! ‘Reus’ took a little longer to read, but was also very good!
Apparently Karin Fossum is a big name in her own country (Norway). Her books are now translated in several languages among which Dutch. I’m currently reading one book after the other (got them as a present) and I really like them. Nice piece of crime-literature! I can’t decide which one I liked best until now.
If you are interested, editors Manteau / Anthos took care of the dutch copies.
