Peter Terrin

Peter Terrin (born 3 October 1968) is a Belgian novelist, and a winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. was his breakthrough. Knack, a Belgian weekly that Terrin blogged for, described Blanco as the best Dutch-language novel about the father-son relationship since Ferdinand Bordewijk's Karakter. won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2010, and his novel Post mortem won the 2012 AKO Literatuurprijs.

Terrin cites Willem Frederik Hermans as an important influence for his minimalist style, and critics have recognized the influence of J. Bernlef in his prose.

Published books

Novels Kras ("Scratch"), 2001 Blanco ("Blank"), 2003 (trans. into Swedish) Vrouwen en kinderen eerst ("Women and Children First"), 2004 De bewaker ("The Guard"), 2009 (trans. into English, Italian, French, German, Slovenian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian, Czech, Bulgarian, Croatian, Catalan) Post mortem, 2012 Monte Carlo, 2014 Yucca, 2016 Patricia, 2018 Al het blauw, 2021

Short stories De code ("The Code"), 1998 De bijeneters ("The Bee Eaters"), 2006