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Fien Veldman (1990) is 2022's recipient of the Joost Zwagerman Essay-award for her essay ‘Not really making it’, about growing up in a working-class neighbourhood in Leeuwarden. In 2018 she won the Elise Mathilde Essay Award for her essay ‘Borders, doors and eyes open’. From 2010 until 2016, she worked as a theatre critic. (And, of course, she has also worked in customer service.) Hard Copy is her debut novel.
This novel has it all. It's smart, captivating, poignant, absurd, moving, and terribly funny. -- Jente Posthuma A weird, understated and very well written book about a millennial meltdown. * Havermelkelite * You regularly wonder who is more disturbed here, the protagonist or society. * Het Parool * In clear, bright language, Fien Veldman accurately depicts a world, a social background, that eats its way through the individual... A novel like an autopsy. -- Manon Uphoff A beautiful, at times absurdist and moving debut. * Boekblad * Absurdist and inventive. Fien Veldman knows how to deal with contemporary cultural phenomena, and she always approaches them astutely and surprisingly. * Tzum * Wondrous. * Noordhollands Dagblad * A beautiful book. * Friesch Dagblad *
