Born 1967 · Netherlands
Libris 2018 · Shortlist
De heilige Rita
Tommy Wieringa · 50 when first published
Novel · 256 pages · Family, Migration
AI-generated summary:For almost fifty years Paul Krüzen has lived with his father on a ghostly old farm outside Mariënveen, a forgotten village on the German border; once his father cared for him, now he cares for his father.
Libris 2013 · Winner
Dit zijn de namen
Tommy Wieringa · 45 when first published
Novel · 320 pages · Migration
AI-generated summary:A band of nameless refugees, cheated by people smugglers, wanders across the steppe for months. Meanwhile Pontus Beg, police chief of a decaying border town, digs into his roots and longs to be a Jew.
Libris 2006 · Shortlist
Joe Speedboot
Tommy Wieringa · 38 when first published
Novel · 319 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Left in a wheelchair with one good arm after a mowing accident at thirteen, Fransje Hermans chronicles his village and a boy newly arrived there, who builds bombs and a working plane.