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13 maart 2010

Hilary Mantel Interview: Guardian Angel

Peter Breedveld

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Vorig jaar kreeg mijn favoriete levende schrijver Hilary Mantel de Booker Prize voor haar historische roman Wolf Hall. Vlak daarvoor was het me eindelijk gelukt een interview, dat ik anderhalf jaar eerder met haar had gehad, aan Vrij Nederland te slijten. Hieronder het eerste deel van de transcriptie daarvan, over de paranormale dimensie van het schrijven.

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8 september 2009

‘I wouldn’t want to sound insane’

Peter Breedveld

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Writer Hilary Mantel is virtually unknown in The Netherlands, but in the UK she is considered one of the most important contemporary writers. Her new novel Wolf Hall has now been shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize. About time she was properly introduced.

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20 maart 2009

Bifi

David Swatling

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Moroccan-Dutch journalist Hassnae Bouazza is no stranger to controversy. Her work attracts attention for her frank approach to taboo subjects such as pornography in the Arab world.

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28 januari 2006

‘I am not normal on the inside’

Peter Breedveld

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Recently Charles Burns’ deeply disturbing but also utterly touching and darkly poetic graphic novel Black Hole hit the shelves of the finer bookstores near you. Never, in any novel, poem or song, have I seen teenage angst captured so well as in Black Hole. The book, in my humble opinion, deserves a place among the great classics of American Literature. I spoke to Burns a while ago, when he was still working on the last pages of his masterpiece.

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2 juli 2005

Naked girls

Peter Breedveld

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I discovered this new website, one of the most fascinating sites I ever came across. It’s called I shot myself . It’s a site with naked girls. I know, there are naked girls aplenty on the internet. But this site is different. The girls are not professional models, or porn stars, or Eastern European or Philippine unmarried mothers desperately trying to make ends meet.

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26 maart 2005

The cradle of Dutch pop music

Peter Breedveld

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The Tielman Brothers

Why was The Hague the capital of Dutch pop music in the sixties? Probably due to a combination of Indo-Europeans, preachers and typically Haguean bluffers.

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5 maart 2005

Travels Around My Bookshelf 5

Jonathan Howells

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For some reason, otherwise perfectly sensible writers like John Irving don’t rate Wolfe. They’re wrong, and, given Irving’s poor form of late, would be best advised to keep their opinions to themselves.

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