Hanna Bervoets
(The Netherlands, 1984) is a writer of novels, screenplays, plays, short stories and essays on media and popular (online) culture. Bervoets made her debut in 2009 with Of hoe waarom (Or How Why), followed two years later by Lieve Céline (Dear Céline), which was awarded the Opzij Literature Prize. A year later, the bestseller Alles wat er was (Everything That Was) was published, followed by Efter (2014), Ivanov (2016), Fuzzie (2017) and Welkom in het Rijk der zieken (Welcome to the Kingdom of the Sick) (2019). In 2017, Bervoets won the BNG Bank Literature Prize for Ivanov, and in the same year she also won the Frans Kellendonk Prize for her entire oeuvre. In 2021, her first collection of short stories, Een modern verlangen (A Modern Desire), was published and awarded the J.M.A. Biesheuvel Prize. In 2025, her tenth novel, Geld verdienen (Earning Money), was published. When Ellie and Freya each need money for their own reasons, they decide to take control of the stock market. After all, don't they deserve to be rich too?
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Past events
<strong>More Than a Monster: Reading Frankenstein with Hanna Bervoets & Martijntje Smits </stron
Book of My Life: Hanna Bervoets in conversation with Lin An Phoa
About A Little Life by Hanya Yanagahira.
Chat GPT - The New Bestseller Author
With: Hanna Bervoets, Ilyaz Nasrullah, Bas Haring and Oumaima Hajri
Forever Clips Clips Clips
Writers Hanna Bervoets and Mark O'Connell and film curator Gerlinda Heywegen presented and commented on video clips, short films and excerpts from games and feature films related to the festival theme 'Who wants to live forever?'
Man-Machine: And Technology Created the New Human
Hanna Bervoets and Irish writer of bestselling novel To Be a Machine discuss our "trans-human" future.
My Secret City
The festival asked seven authors to write about their own "secret" cities. Not the city that they see when they walk out the door but the city that they occasionally and unexpectedly come across. They read in their own language, with English and Dutch translations projected simultaneously.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
We tell one another fairy tales: about how the world appears, but also about how we ourselves appear. On Facebook, Instagram and vlogs we show our best side.
Winternachten lecture: Fiction in Fake Times
What is real, what is fake? And yet it's the fabrications that can provide insight into the world in which we live. Michel Faber kicks off the evening with the Winternachten Lecture.
