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