Stefan Hertmans wins Golden Owl’s readers jury
Flemish author and poet Stefan Hertmans has won the Golden Book Owl's prize of the readers' jury for the best in Dutch-language literature
Dutch author Joost de Vries wins jury prize
Hertmans (pictured, right) won the €2,500 purse for his novel Oorlog en terpentijn (War and Turpentine), which is based on his grandfather’s sketches made after the First World War. Earlier this year, Hertmans also won the Flemish Culture Prize for Literature.
The jury prize for the Golden Book Owl, meanwhile, went to Dutch author Joost de Vries (pictured, left) for his novel De republiek (The Republic), centred on the assistant of a deceased philosophy professor who must finish his mentor’s work on the Second World War but lets his professional jealousy get in the way. The honour comes with a €25,000 prize.