Hanna Bervoets
Hanna Bervoets (1984, Amsterdam) is one of the most acclaimed Dutch authors of her generation. After earning her Bachelors degree in Cultural Studies and a Masters in Journalism & Research she published nine novels, several screenplays, plays and a short story collection. She also writes essays and reviews on media, tech, popular culture and (queer) representation.Bervoets received numerous nominations and awards for her work. In 2017, she was granted the prestigious Frans Kellendonk Prize for her entire body of works. Her novels are being translated in many languages and were adapted for film and television. Excerpts and short stories were published on international platforms such as Five Dials and The Guardian. During the spring of 2018 Bervoets was a resident at Writers Omi at Ledig House, New York, where she worked on her novel 'Welcome to the Kingdom of the Sick': an adventure story on chronic illness. 'Welcome to the Kingdom of the Sick' became an instant bestseller when it was published in 2019. In 2021 her novella 'The Things we saw' was published for Dutch Book Week in a first print run of 650,000 copies. Picador published it in May 2022 in the UK, HarperCollins in the US as 'We had to remove this Post'. In 2022 Bervoets won the J.M.A Biesheuvel award for her latest short story collection, 'A modern desire'. Hanna Bervoets works and lives in Amsterdam, with her girlfriend and two guinea pigs
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Hanna Bervoets
For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star about a group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors—reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation—who convince themselves they’re in control . . . until the violence strikes closer to home.
Kayleigh needs money. That’s why she takes a job as a content moderator for a social media platform whose name she isn’t allowed to mention. Her job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and deciding which need to be removed. It’s grueling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform’s ever-changing terms of service while a supervisor sits behind them, timing and scoring their assessments. Yet Kayleigh finds a group of friends, even a new love—and, somehow, the job starts to feel okay.
But when her colleagues begin to break down; when Sigrid, her new girlfriend, grows increasingly distant and fragile; when her friends start espousing the very conspiracy theories they’re meant to be evaluating; Kayleigh begins to wonder if the job may be too much for them. She’s still totally fine, though—or is she?
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Hanna Bervoets
Bekend als de internationele BookTokhit We Had To Remove This Post.
Wanneer Kayleigh in de financiële problemen raakt, solliciteert ze naar een baan als ‘content moderator’ voor een online platform waarvan ze de naam niet mag noemen. Haar taak: beoordelen welke aanstootgevende filmpjes, foto’s en tirades moeten worden verwijderd, of juist online mogen blijven staan. Het werk is zwaar. Kayleigh en haar collega’s zien gruwelijke dingen voorbijkomen, en de richtlijnen van het platform zijn vaak onnavolgbaar. Toch voelt Kayleigh zich op haar plek, want binnen het moderatorenteam vindt ze broederschap, en als Kayleigh verliefd wordt op haar collega Sigrid lacht de toekomst hen toe. Of lijkt dat maar zo? Wat wij zagen is een verhaal over wie of wat ons wereldbeeld bepaalt.
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