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‘Treurwil’ by Rik Van Puymbroeck: Striking Passages From A Melancholy Life

25 January 2024

Flemish journalist Rik Van Puymbroeck has previously been honoured as a master storyteller by the Foundation for Narrative Journalism three times. That storytelling talent has now found its way into a literary debut: Treurwil (Weeping Will).

‘Xerox’ By Fien Veldman: An Anti-office Novel Full Of Silent Protest

12 January 2024

The dullness of office life prompts workers to work as little as possible. With Xerox, Fien Veldman has written a debut about one such ‘quiet quitter’.

‘Omdat Ze Leven’ by Brecht de Backer: Quantum Theory Provides Grip in a Messy Existence

21 June 2023

How to live? It’s no mean feat, even less so as a single lesbian woman with a desire to have children, as Brecht De Backer’s philosophical debut novel reveals.

‘Een bepaalde dag in het leven van iedereen’ by Stijn Vranken: Cheerful World History

31 May 2023

Do you remember what you were doing on 14 February 1990? Not very likely. But author and screenwriter Stijn Vranken does remember, and it makes for an entertaining debut.

‘De Randen’ by Angelo Tijssens: A Desperate Search for Affection

1 February 2023

In pared-back prose, Angelo Tijssens tells the story of a gay man’s laborious search for a speck of love and affection.

‘Nachtbloeiers’ by Ananda Serné: Searching for an Anchor

2 January 2023

In a society that suffers increasingly from insomnia, young Eliza is looking for something to hold on to. Charting Eliza’s search for sleep in her debut Nachtbloeiers (Night bloomers) writer and visual artist Ananda Serné gently shakes the reader awake.

‘Weerlicht’ by Jante Wortel: Wrestling With Obsessive Compulsions

9 December 2022

In her debut novel, Jante Wortel paints a stark portrait of a teenager whose family is held in the grip of her OCD.

‘Het begin en zijn oneindigheid’ by Corinne Heyrman: The Right to Be Vulnerable, to Be Different

26 October 2022

When her grandfather is admitted to a psychiatric ward, a young woman mulls her own past there. A gripping novel about mental fragility.

‘Redder’ by Hannes Dedeurwaerder: Escape From a Sectarian Community

7 October 2022

With Redder (Saviour), Hannes Dedeurwaerder has written a semi-autobiographical debut novel about his upbringing in the Pentecostal community. An unusual glimpse into an otherwise closed world.

‘De bakvis’ by Nadia de Vries: Escaping Invisibility

6 September 2022

With De bakvis ('Thistle'), Nadia de Vries has written an angsty debut about a young woman afraid of remaining in the shadows.

‘Schaduwlicht’ by Petra Thijs: Ode to a Painter’s Model

16 August 2022

In Schaduwlicht (Shadow light), Petra Thijs grants us a glimpse behind the scenes in the art world, with the remarkable life story of Victorine Meurent, the life model for Edouard Manet’s Le déjeuner sur l'herbe.

‘De onvoltooide’ by Peter Nijssen: Exercises in Reading and Life

1 July 2022

Unfinished art is often the most beautiful of all and also the most instructive, according to De onvoltooide (The Unfinished) by Peter Nijssen. A novel about art, about cycling, but perhaps above all a story about the fear of an insignificant life.

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