Born 1971 · Netherlands
Libris 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Birthmarks”
Arnon Grunberg · 45 when first published
Novel · 399 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Otto Kadoke, a psychiatrist who keeps people with a death wish alive at a crisis centre, is overcome by love for one of the Nepalese carers looking after his frail old mother.
Libris 2013 · Shortlist
De man zonder ziekte
Arnon Grunberg · 41 when first published
Novel · 222 pages · Politics, Satire
AI-generated summary:Sam Ambani, a young Swiss architect with an Indian father, is hired to design an opera house for Baghdad. He believes buildings can make people happier, but in Iraq he is taken for a spy.
Libris 2011 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Skin and Hair”
Arnon Grunberg · 39 when first published
Novel · 525 pages · Satire, Love
AI-generated summary:Professor Oberstein, an economist who treats love, loyalty and attention as goods to be bargained for, lives among people in New York who are all trying, each after a fashion, to trade their way to happiness.
Libris 2009 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Our Uncle”
Arnon Grunberg · 37 when first published
Novel · 624 pages · War, Politics
AI-generated summary:In an unnamed South American country where the army fights a guerrilla movement in a war no one may call a war, Major Anthony fails both as an officer and as a husband.
Libris 2007 · Winner
Tirza
Arnon Grunberg · 35 when first published
Novel · 471 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Jörgen Hofmeester throws a graduation party for his youngest daughter, playing the ideal host while his outwardly successful life comes apart behind the scenes.
Libris 2003 · Shortlist
Arnon Grunberg · 31 when first published
Novel · 316 pages
AI-generated summary:Born of a hotel fling and raised in a German boarding house, François Lepeltier rehearses in secret for the part he believes will define him: wine waiter at the luxurious Palace Hotel in the Swiss Alps.