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”. '

“The Little Mermaid fairy tale moved to the present. This debutant does it so original and smart that you are left slightly stunned. Those scars behind that mother's ear... are they gills? Hooray, the literary experiment is still alive. '

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

“Just as every fairy tale shows something of what people hope, suspect, desire or fear, “Here we come from” also moves into the deeper layers of our soul.”