Anjet Daanje is a Dutch writer of novels, short stories and screenplays
Her breakthrough novel, The Remembered Soldier, won the Netherlands’ 2020 F. Bordewijk Prize and the Best Book of Groningen Prize. The Song of Stork and Dromedary won the 2023 Libris Literature Prize, the most prestigious award for Dutch literature, and the Boeekenbon Prize, the Netherlands’ other major literary award – the first time that the Libris and Boekenbon prizes have been won by the same book. It has since been licensed in 13 languages and has sold over 100,000 copies in the Netherlands.
The English language edition of The Remembered Soldier, translated by David McKay, was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026.
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In Daanje’s hands, and in McKay’s intuitive translation, the ravages and shellshock of the First World War are superbly traced
— The International Booker Prize 2026 judges on The Remembered Soldier
