Leuk zeg doei

by Hanna Bervoets

Mijn columns zijn goed, maar die van Hanna Bervoets zijn beter. Veel beter!' – Youp van 't Hek

Hanna Bervoets is in de afgelopen jaren uitgegroeid tot een van de geliefdste columnisten van Nederland. Dankzij haar verrassende, herkenbare, ontroerende, en altijd eigenzinnige en geestige Volkskrant Magazine-columns over thema's als identiteit, media, familie, volwassenwording en relaties heeft ze honderdduizenden harten gestolen. In Leuk zeg doei zijn haar columns gebundeld.

208 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2011

About the author

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

Reviews

[J M-B · Rating 4 out of 5]

Time was you could buy de Volkskrant in some central London newsagents but, sadly, not any more because I would have enjoyed these articles in their original context of glossy adverts and lifestyle advice. However, they stand up well as a collection - and certainly stand up well in comparison with columnists in the UK press today. Jeffrey Bernard was probably the best English exponent of the genre, but current practitioners (looking at the 'New Statesman' and 'The Spectator') are flabby in comparison with Hanna Bervoets. Dutch journalism, certainly since Carmiggelt, has excelled at these short form pieces that offer the writer great freedoms in subject matter and personal tone, while imposing the discipline of concise but expressive language. Expansiveness is easy; it must be really challenging to deliver so little week after week. The 'stukjes' presented here are varied, but have a clear bias towards the unspoken etiquettes of modern social engagement in bars, in families and online. Funny too. They are, as well, just beginning to slip from the contemporary into the slightly dated - and that is another reason I like this book. (I just convinced myself to add that fourth star...).

[Joke · Rating 3 out of 5]

Leuke columns

[Tanja Verhaar · Rating 3 out of 5]

leuke columns die je soms ook aan het nadenken zetten. Geen boek om in 1 ruk weg te lezen, maar af en toe een column als je nog 5 minuten over hebt is leuk

[Rinke · Rating 3 out of 5]

Favourite columnist. I do think. These are her columns.

[Angeline Cuijpers · Rating 3 out of 5]

De leukste columns van Nederland.

[Gijs Zandbergen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Columns die nooit las, omdat ik het Volkskrant Magazine alleen maar doorblader.

[Floortje Van Overbeek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Überjas is de omweg waard