Leonieke Baerwaldt

“Leonieke Baerwaldt wins the BNG Literature Prize. Baerwaldt's novel “Days as Strange Symptoms” is the experimentally told and mythically charged story of a mother of a multiple handicapped child. According to the jury, it is an “intelligent, layered and moving novel”. '

“A novel that hits you like an assassin, head and heart, fearlessly accurate.”

“It's a hypnotic, melancholic story that Baerwaldt tells. Her words are poetic and each one is convincing. '

“Thanks to Baerwaldt's recycling of fables, myths, and fairy tales by Andersen and Grimm, we experience what binds us, humans.”