Anjet Daanje
Anjet Daanje (b. 1965) writes novels, short stories and screenplays. Her breakthrough novel 'De herinnerde soldaat' (The Remembered Soldier) won the 2020 F. Bordewijk Prize and the Best Book of Groningen Prize and was longlisted for the 2020 Libris Literature Prize.
The Song of the Stork and the Dromedary (2022) is a breathtakingly rich novel about love and about literature as a way to triumph over death.
The various movies for which she wrote the screenplays have earned a total of 17 international film awards, including the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. The Song of the Stork and the Dromedary is already on its fourth edition.
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The Song of the Stork and the Dromedary
This masterful novel spans two centuries in a mosaic of styles and genres. Its central figure is the uncompromising Eliza May, modeled after Emily Brontë.
Sugar Animal
In 'Sugar Animal', Anjet Daanje draws a shockingly human portrait of a serial killer. Rutger Jaspers lives in a rowhouse. He is the sales manager at a sugar factory, he loves his wife, the music of the popular Dutch singer Marco Borsato and having a tidy home. He seems perfectly ordinary.