The Discomfort of Evening
by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Michele Hutchison
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| International Booker Prize | 2020 | Winner |
About This Book
Set on a Dutch Reformed farm after the death of a child, narrated by the eldest remaining daughter. A suffocating, hallucinatory novel about grief, faith, and the strange rituals of trauma. Winner of the 2020 International Booker Prize.
About the Authors
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld is a Dutch writer born in 1991 in Nieuwendijk, the Netherlands, who grew up in a strict Dutch Reformed agricultural community. They studied at the Utrecht School of the Arts. The Discomfort of Evening (2018, translated by Michele Hutchinson) is their debut novel, following a farming family's disintegration after the accidental death of a child, written in Rijneveld's extraordinary run-on style. Read more →
Michele Hutchison is a British literary translator based in Amsterdam who specialises in Dutch and Flemish literature. She translated Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's *The Discomfort of Evening*, which won the International Booker Prize in 2020. She has also translated works by Lulu Wang, Mano Bouzamour, and Niña Weijers.
