Anjet Daanje

Books on prize lists

• De herinnerde soldaat

  In English

  SaveThe Remembered Soldier to read later

  National Book Award 2025 · Finalist

  The Remembered Soldier

  De herinnerde soldaat

  Anjet Daanje · 54 when first published

  Novel · 576 pages · War, Love, Historical

  Translated by David McKay

  AIAI-generated summary:During the First World War a soldier is found just behind the Belgian front, unharmed but with no idea who he is; four years after the war he is returned to a wife and children he cannot remember.

• Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris

  In English

  SaveThe Song of Stork and Dromedary to read later

  Libris 2023 · ★ Winner

  The Song of Stork and Dromedary

  Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris

  Anjet Daanje · 57 when first published

  Novel · 736 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:Eliza May Drayden, an author drawn after Emily Brontë, survives her early death through her single novel and through the people it touches, in eleven stories reaching from Victorian Yorkshire to present-day Groningen.