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Lucas Rijneveld

February 2024

  • Lucas Rijneveld

    My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld review – sordid, troubling… sublime

    The International Booker prize winner adds to his reputation for transgressive brilliance with this tale of a vet and a client’s teenage daughter, delivered in cyclone-force prose

January 2024

  • Lucas Rijneveld

    Book of the day
    My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld review – a transgressive tour de force

    In this dazzling follow-up to the International Booker-winning The Discomfort of Evening, an abuser addresses his teenage victim

July 2021

  • Euro 2020 final.

    After England’s football defeat, a poet reflects on what we can learn from losing

    As England mourns Sunday’s Euro 2020 result, International Booker winner Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has written Substitution applause, about the upside of going down

March 2021

  • Kenan Malik

    Lost in translation: the dead end of dividing the world on identity lines

    Kenan Malik
  • Portrait of writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Photography Judith Jockel / The Guardian

    Everything inhabitable: a poem by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

  • Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and Amanda Gorman

    Marieke Lucas Rijneveld writes poem about Amanda Gorman furore

  • Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and Amanda Gorman

    'Shocked by the uproar': Amanda Gorman's white translator quits

September 2020

  • Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

    Books that made me
    Marieke Lucas Rijneveld: 'For a long time I believed that Hogwarts actually existed'

    The winner of the 2020 International Booker on struggling through Proust and being terrified of Roald Dahl’s Witches

August 2020

  • NETHERLANDS-LITERATURE-AWARDS<br>A picture taken on July 22, 2020 in Utrecht shows Dutch writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, nominated for the International Booker prize with her book “The Discomfort of Evening”. (Photo by Jeroen JUMELET / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by JEROEN JUMELET/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

    Marieke Lucas Rijneveld wins International Booker for The Discomfort of Evening

    Dutch author, 29, becomes youngest winner of £50,000 prize, for ‘virtuosic’ debut with translator Michele Hutchison

April 2020

  • Portrait of writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Photography Judith Jockel / The Guardian

    International Booker prize shortlist led by 28-year-old’s debut

    The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld joins five other ‘expansively imagined’ novels contending for £50,000 award

March 2020

  • Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

    The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld – review

    A remarkable debut novel about a Dutch farm girl and her strict Christian family is unflinching and disturbing
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    Book of the day
    The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld review – a family’s grief

    Tragedy shapes the darkly ritualistic world of three children in a Reformed farming family, in this bestseller from the Netherlands
  • Portrait of writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Photography Judith Jockel / The Guardian

    This is Europe
    'My family are too frightened to read my book': meet Europe's most exciting authors

    From a Dutch bestseller about childhood loss to a passionate lesbian love affair in France, a refugee’s journey from Iraq and the dark side of Scandinavia ... Meet the novelists telling fresh stories about Europe

November 2019

  • Marieke Rijneveld

    Ten of the best new books in translation

    From a Dutch family saga to a murdered witch in Mexico, these novels will transport you from the North Korean border to Tblisi and beyond
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