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Arnon Yasha Yves (Arnon) Grunberg (born February 22 1971 in Amsterdam
Amsterdam

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) is a Dutch
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 writer
Writer

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. Some of his books were written using the heteronym Marek van der Jagt.

Grunberg made his literary debut in 1994 with the novel Blauwe maandagen (Blue Mondays), which won the Dutch prize for the best debut novel that year. In 2000, under the heteronym
Heteronym (literature)

The literature concept of heteronym, invented by Portugal poet Fernando Pessoa, refers to one or more imaginary character created by a poet to write in different styles....
 Marek van der Jagt, he won the best debut prize again for his novel De geschiedenis van mijn kaalheid (The History of My Baldness).

Grunberg publishes novels about once a year but also writes columns and essays in a wide variety of Dutch and international newspapers and magazines.






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Arnon Yasha Yves (Arnon) Grunberg (born February 22 1971 in Amsterdam
Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the Capital of the Netherlands and List of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people of the Netherlands, located in the Provinces of the Netherlands of North Holland in the west of the country....
) is a Dutch
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
. Some of his books were written using the heteronym Marek van der Jagt.

Grunberg made his literary debut in 1994 with the novel Blauwe maandagen (Blue Mondays), which won the Dutch prize for the best debut novel that year. In 2000, under the heteronym
Heteronym (literature)

The literature concept of heteronym, invented by Portugal poet Fernando Pessoa, refers to one or more imaginary character created by a poet to write in different styles....
 Marek van der Jagt, he won the best debut prize again for his novel De geschiedenis van mijn kaalheid (The History of My Baldness).

Grunberg publishes novels about once a year but also writes columns and essays in a wide variety of Dutch and international newspapers and magazines. He does not restrict himself only to the written media, but also reads a story for the radio every week and for some time he was host of a cultural television program. He also writes a blog for the literary Internet magazine Words Without Borders
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 and his own site .

His novel Tirza won the Dutch Golden Owl Prize for Literature and the Libris Prize. His books have been translated into many languages, including English, German and Japanese.

"Onze oom" (Our Uncle) is his most recent novel.

From 2006 Grunberg wrote various journalistic reports, for example about working undercover in a Bavarian hotel and his visit to Guantánamo Bay. Also he visited the Dutch troops in Afghanistan and the US Army in Iraq. In 2009 these reports were collected in the book Chambermaids and Soldiers.

Selected Bibliography

Novels:
  • Blauwe maandagen / Blue Mondays (1994)
  • Figuranten / Silent Extras (1997)
  • De heilige Antonio ("Saint Antony") (1998)
  • Fantoompijn / Phantom Pain (2000)
  • De geschiedenis van mijn kaalheid / Story of My Baldness (2000), as Marek van der Jagt
  • De Mensheid zij geprezen, Lof der Zotheid 2001 ("Praised be Mankind"/"Praise of Folly 2001") (2001)
  • Gstaad 95-98 (2002), as Marek van der Jagt
  • De asielzoeker ("The Asylum Seeker") (2003)
  • De joodse messias / Grote jiddische roman ("The Jewish Messiah") (2004)
  • Tirza (2006)
  • Onze oom ("Our Uncle") (2008)


Stories:
  • Amuse-Gueule ("Amuse-Bouche") (2001)
  • Grunberg rond de wereld ("Grunberg Around the World") (2004)
  • Kamermeisjes & Soldaten ("Arnon Grunberg onder de mensen") 2009


Essays:
  • Troost van de slapstick ("The Comfort of Slapstick") (1998)
  • Monogaam ("Monogamous") (2001), as Marek van der Jagt
  • Otto Weininger Of bestaat de jood? ("Otto Weininger or Does the Jew Exist?") (2005), as Marek van der Jagt


Filmscript:
  • Het 14e kippetje ("The Fourteenth Chicken") (1998)


Plays:
  • You are also very attractive when you are dead (1998)
  • De Asielzoeker (adapted by Koen Tachelet, 2005)


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