Lit in Translation

Yves Petry

Born 1967 · Belgium

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Libris 2023 · Shortlist

    Overal zit mens

    Title translated by AI:“Humans Everywhere”

    Yves Petry · 55 when first published

    Novel · 250 pages · Nature, Crime

    AI-generated summary:Kasper Kind, a forest warden sick at heart over what humans have done to nature and scornful of herd thinking, plots the murder of a television intellectual with whom he shares a past.

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    Libris 2011 · Winner

    De maagd Marino

    Title translated by AI:“The Virgin Marino”

    Yves Petry · 43 when first published

    Novel · 284 pages · Crime

    AI-generated summary:Inspired by a real case in Germany, a man kills and eats his lover, who has agreed to it. After a near-clinical account of the killing, the dead victim begins to speak and tells his own story.