Lucas Rijneveld
One of the greatest new voices in Dutch literature, Lucas Rijneveld grew up in a farming family in North Brabant before moving to Utrecht
Rijneveld’s first poetry collection, Calf’s Caul, was awarded the C. Buddingh’-prijs for best poetry debut in 2015, with the newspaper de Volkskrant naming them literary talent of the year. In 2018, Atlas Contact published his first novel, The Discomfort of Evening, which won the prestigious ANV Debut Prize and was a national bestseller. The UK edition, translated by Michele Hutchinson, won the International Booker Prize 2020. Alongside their writing career, Rijneveld works on a dairy farm.
The Discomfort of Evening
Winner of The International Booker Prize 2020
- Translated by
- Michele Hutchison
- Published by
- Faber & Faber
Lucas Rijneveld's radical debut novel is studded with images of wild, violent beauty: a world of language unlike any other
