Born 1963 · Netherlands
Libris 2024 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“I'll Come Back to This”
Rob van Essen · 60 when first published
Novel · 397 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:Rob Hollander, an unambitious Amsterdam journalist who writes improbable stories, is invited to Los Angeles by an old classmate, who offers him a trip into the past to undo an old mistake.
Libris 2019 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“The Good Son”
Rob van Essen · 55 when first published
Novel · 381 pages · Speculative, Family
AI-generated summary:In a near future where a basic income has bred lethargy, a writer of plotless thrillers who has just buried his mother heads south with another man on a secret mission.
Libris 2009 · Shortlist
Rob van Essen · 45 when first published
Novel · 189 pages · Politics, Family
AI-generated summary:Jacob, a history teacher, says something ill-judged in class and is sent home. When a local reporter takes up the story, the shy teacher is cast as a neo-Nazi ringleader.