Geert Mak writes Book Week Gift 2007

Geert Mak will write the so-called ‘Book Week Gift’ for Book Week 2007. Every year, a renowned author is asked to write a small book that is given away free with the purchase of other literature.

With his historical books, Mak has managed to reach a broad reading public, and his work is appreciated by both professional circles and ordinary readers. In 1999, Mak received the Henriëtte Roland Holst Prize for his book Hoe God verdween uit Jorwerd (Jorwerd: the death of the village in Friesland), published in 1996. De eeuw van mijn vader (My Father’s Century) was awarded the Trouw Public Prize for the Dutch Book 2000, and In Europa received the NS Public Prize for the Dutch Book 2004. In 1998, Geert Mak wrote the Book Week essay Het ontsnapte land (Breakaway Land).

The motto of the Book Week 2007 – 14 to 24 March – has already been established: ‘Praise of folly’. This theme, borrowed from Erasmus, will place the week in the ambience of ‘humour in all its forms’.

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Published: April 21, 2006 news | non-fiction