Lit in Translation

Marijke Schermer

Born 1975 · Netherlands

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Libris 2025 · Shortlist

    In het oog

    Title translated by AI:“In the Eye”

    Marijke Schermer · 49 when first published

    Novel · 191 pages · Love

    AI-generated summary:Nicola, a microbiologist who prefers to observe the world from behind her microscope, is suddenly left by her girlfriend just as the money for her work on an unusual bacterium dries up.

  • In English

    Libris 2020 · Shortlist

    Love, If That's What It Is

    Liefde, als dat het is

    Marijke Schermer · 44 when first published

    Novel · 312 pages · Love, Family

    AI-generated summary:After twenty-five years of marriage Terri walks out, with a lover and above all in search of herself. Her steady, kind husband David is left at home with their two teenage girls.