Anne Provoost
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Anne Provoost (born 1964 in Poperinge, Belgium) is a Flemish author who lives in Antwerp, Belgium, with her husband and three children. She is known for remaking myths, folk tales, fairy tales, and bible stories. She studied literature at the University of Leuven (Louvain).
Once a year, she writes a letter to Hans Christian Andersen answering one of his stories. Apart from being a novelist, Provoost also writes essays on literature and literature for children, as well as short stories.
Her new book ‘Looking into the Sun’, Querido/Amsterdam, published April 2007, is the story of a young girl living on an Australian farm with her parents and half-sister. Her mother has bad eyesight and knows she may be going blind.
Her novel 'In the Shadow of the Ark' was longlisted for the International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2006. She is the Belgian nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen-award 2007.
Her work, originally published in Dutch, has been translated into at least 12 languages, among them German, English, Danish, Swedish and Portuguese. "Falling" is her most famous book, having won five Literary prizes in Europe
Anne Provoost is a member of the The Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature.
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- Second Letter to Hans Christian Andersen
- Bad endings for children. Hopelessness and consolation; growing up, willing or not
- So Here's The Bad News. The child as antagonist.
- Identification in Falling. If goblins don't exist...
