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Jaap Robben

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Born

Netherlands

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http://www.jaaprobben.com

Genre

Fiction, Poetry

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October 2020

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Jaap Robben (1984) does not write specifically for an age, but for everyone in particular. With his debut novel 'You have me to love' (Birk), he conquered booksellers, readers as well as critics. Birk was awarded the Dutch Booksellers Award, the ANV Debut Award and the Diorapthe Jongeren Literatuurprijs. Only in the Netherlands and Belgium more than 80.000 copies have been sold so far.

Summer Brother (Zomervacht) was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021 and received a lot of praise in- and outside the Dutch language borders. Zomervacht was made into an awardwinning movie by Joren Molter.

In 2022 he published his latest and much-discussed novel Afterlight (Schemerleven) that became a bestseller too and was awarded with the Conf ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 15,390 ratings · 2,137 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors

	Schemerleven 4.41 avg rating — 4,903 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Birk 3.40 avg rating — 4,273 ratings — published 2014 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zomervacht 3.72 avg rating — 3,641 ratings — published 2018 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zwijgmannen by Jaap Robben (Goodreads Author), Jan Hamstra (Illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 571 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Biography of a Fly by Jaap Robben (Goodreads Author), Paul Faassen (Illustrator), David Doherty (Translator) 4.14 avg rating — 306 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wantij 3.94 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heel de wereld wordt wakker by Jaap Robben (Goodreads Author) (Samensteller), Sebastiaan Van Doninck (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.25 avg rating — 129 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	's Nachts verdwijnt de wereld 3.67 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De Zuurtjes 3.59 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Suzie Ruzie en het schaartje by Jaap Robben (Goodreads Author), Benjamin Leroy (Illustrator) 3.65 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Suzie Ruzie (4 books)
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Tijdens het lezen van dit kleinnood moest ik steeds denken aan een vogeltje dat tegen het raam vliegt. Je schrikt in dit verhaal als van de plotse doffe tik tegen het glas. Je opent de tuindeur en neemt het vogeltje behoedzaam op je hand. En realisee ...more
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“Ineens zag ik iets. In een kleine inham. Een paar meter beneden me. Iets donkers dat in het water dreef. Gebonk en geklots. Ik wilde in het water springen, maar durfde niet. Mama was een paar meter verder. 'Hier is iets!' riep ik.
Ze gleed uit en liet de zaklamp vallen, die wegrolde maar in een spleet tussen twee grote stenen bleef hangen. Ze krabbelde op, pakte de lamp en sprong naar me toe. 'Waar, waar dan?' Zenuwachtig richtte ze de zaklamp op het donkere water beneden ons, daar beukte een bewierde boomstam tegen de rotsen. 'Godver', vloekte ze. 'God-ver-domme.'
We klauterden verder. Op het hoogste punt bleef ze staan en tastte met het licht over het water. Haar roepen was veranderd in smeken. Ik riep: 'Papapapapapa!”
― Jaap Robben, Birk

tags: papa, verdrinken, water

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