Born 1952 · Netherlands
Libris 2023 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Man Without a Driving Licence”
Oek de Jong · 70 when first published
Nonfiction · 214 pages
AI-generated summary:A writer who always refused to drive takes lessons late in life in Amsterdam, and asking himself why he left it so long leads him back to his parents and to what made him the person he is.
Libris 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Black Barn”
Oek de Jong · 67 when first published
Novel · 489 pages · Coming of age, Love
AI-generated summary:At fifty-nine the painter Maris Coppoolse is about to see his work celebrated at the Stedelijk Museum when a magazine reveals what lies behind it: something he did at fourteen in a tarred barn in Zeeland.
Libris 2013 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Pier and Ocean”
Oek de Jong · 60 when first published
Novel · 803 pages · Coming of age, Family
AI-generated summary:Abel Roorda, a boy from Friesland born of a premarital pregnancy in a strict Reformed family, moves to Zeeland, where he goes through puberty while the stiff Netherlands of the 1950s and 1960s loosens up.
Libris 2003 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Hokwerda's Child”
Oek de Jong · 50 when first published
Novel · 443 pages · Love, Family
AI-generated summary:Doted on by her father until he leaves her life when she is ten, Lin Hokwerda grows up in Amsterdam, quits competitive table tennis at twenty and falls into three love affairs that lead her into darkness.