Arie Storm

Biography

Arie Storm (b. 1963) aims to refine a cerebral style in which the repetition of trivial observations and thoughts plays a large role; the effect is somewhere between banality and beauty. He made his debut with Hémans duik (Héman’s Dive, 1994) which was nominated for the ‘Debutantenprijs’ (prize for new prose writers). His literary satire Hemellicht (Heavenly Light) appeared in 1997. This was followed by De ongeborene (The Unborn, 2001) and Afgunst (Envy, 2003).

Titles

Feeling

(Gevoel, 2004)

In his work Arie Storm ridicules the eternal question about autobiographical reality behind novels by apparently reporting directly from his own world. His narrator’s name is invariably Arie Storm, a writer who lives with his wife and daughter in the Pijp district of Amsterdam. Continued...