Arnon Grünberg
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Arnon Grunberg in 2012
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| Born | Arnon Yasha Yves Grünberg 22 February 1971 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Pen name | Marek van der Jagt |
| Occupation | Author |
| Language | Dutch |
| Period | 1993–present |
| Genre | Novels, essays, columns |
| Notable awards |
AKO Literature Prize Libris Prize Constantijn Huygens Prize |
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Arnon Yasha Yves Grunberg (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑrnɔn ˈjɑʃaː iːv ˈɣrʏnbɛrx]; born 22 February 1971) is a Dutch writer of novels, essays, and columns, as well as a journalist . He wrote some of his work under the heteronym Marek van der Jagt. He lives in New York.
Grunberg was born as Arnon Yasha Yves Grünberg on 22 February 1971 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He grew up in a family of Jewish immigrants, originally from Germany. His mother was a survivor of concentration camp Auschwitz. Grunberg attended the Vossius Gymnasium in Amsterdam, but he got expelled in 1988. Before publishing his first novel, he held various odd jobs, and tried his hand at acting in a short film by Dutch avant-garde film maker Cyrus Frisch. From 1990 to 1993, Grunberg had his own publishing house Kasimir, which was financially unsuccessful.
Grunberg made his literary debut in 1994 with the novel Blauwe maandagen (Blue Mondays), which won the Anton Wachterprijs for best debut novel. Critics hailed it as a "grotesque comedy, a rarity in Dutch literature." In 2000, he was the first to win to this debut prize again, but this time under his heteronym Marek van der Jagt, for the novel De geschiedenis van mijn kaalheid (The History of My Baldness).
Grunberg is a prolific and versatile writer. In addition to his many novels, he has written newspaper and magazine columns, essays, poetry, scenarios and plays. His work has been translated into 30 languages. His English publications include frequent blogposts for Words Without Borders and daily posts on his personal website.
The much acclaimed novel Tirza, about a father's obsessive love for his graduating daughter, was Grunberg's first novel to be made into a movie, Tirza, in 2010, after winning the Dutch Libris Prize and the Belgian Golden Owl in 2007. A 2010 national poll of literary critics, academics and writers held by the magazine De Groene Amsterdammer elected Tirza as the "most important novel of the 21st century," over Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones and Ian McEwan's Saturday. In 2009, Grunberg won the Constantijn Huygens Prize for his entire oeuvre and in 2011 the Frans Kellendonk-prijs.
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