Pauline van de Ven (born 2 January 1956) is a
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writer and visual artist. She made her debut with
Uitgeverij Balans in 1997 with the social satire ''Drijvend Paviljoen'' and wrote six novels and a number of illustrated stories. In 2014 she received the for her entire oeuvre. Her digital painting has been awarded several times.
Biography
Pauline van de Ven was born and grew up in
Houthem, a rural village in South
Limburg
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. Her father was mayor of
Bunde and
Geulle
Geulle (; li, Gäöl ) is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Meerssen, about 8 km southwest of Geleen.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1298 as Gole, and refers to the Geul River wh ...
, and her mother was a lawyer.
The family with three children lived in
Rustenburg
Rustenburg (; , Afrikaans and Dutch: ''City of Rest'') is a city at the foot of the Magaliesberg mountain range. Rustenburg is the most populous city in North West province, South Africa (549,575 in 2011 and 626,522 in the 2016 census). In 20 ...
in an environment of farmers and fruit growers near the river
Geul
, french: la Gueule
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, source1_location = near Lichtenbusch
, mouth_location = Meuse near Bunde
, m ...
, but fell apart during the illness and early death of the mother in 1963. Van de Ven was cared for by a farming and mining family in the village and the manufacturing family of her grandparents. Under the father's second marriage, the family was reunited. After high school, she sold magazines and movie tickets, priced books, filled cement bags, guided tourists and filled out policy numbers. Journalism was a long-cherished wish. She then worked on the economic editorial boards of ''
Trouw
''Trouw'' (; ) is a Dutch daily newspaper appearing in compact size. It was founded in 1943 as an orthodox Protestant underground newspaper during World War II. Since 2009, it has been owned by DPG Media (known as De Persgroep until 2019). ''T ...
'', ''
NRC'', ''
Intermediair
''Intermediair'' is a Dutch website for "higher educated professionals in the fields of management, consulting, personnel counselling, financial administration and controlling, and law."
History and profile
''Intermediair'' was launched in 1965. ...
'' and other media and graduated in 1995 in environmental economics from the
University of Amsterdam
The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...
.
In 1997 she made her debut at
Uitgeverij Balans with the social satire ''Drijvend Paviljoen''.
In 2000 she wound up her work as a journalist to devote herself fully to writing and painting.
After she left publishing house
De Geus, she founded the
Auteursdomein in 2005, together with Eisjen Schaaf, a
non-profit publisher and advocate for authors.
[Lirabulletin, number 24, December 2007](_blank)
Auteursdomein: nieuwe levens voor oude boeken
Selected bibliography
* 1985 – ''
Failliet op krediet'', with
Pieter Lakeman (non-fiction,
Balans)
* 1986 – ''Stop-loss!'' (non-fiction,
Balans)
* 1997 – ''Drijvend paviljoen'' (novel,
Balans)
* 2000 – ''Vrouw in het vogelhuis'' (documentary novella, Archipel/
De Arbeiderspers
De Arbeiderspers is a Dutch publishing company, started as a socialist enterprise. The name means 'The Workers' Press'.
History
The company was started in 1929 as a combination of the publishing firm N.V. Ontwikkeling and the Dutch Social Dem ...
)
* 2001 – ''Ziel van Putter'' (story, Ad.Donker)
* 2003 – ''Het verhaal van de bamboesnijder'', (adaptation of ''
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
is a (fictional prose narrative) containing elements of Japanese folklore. Written by an unknown author in the late 9th or early 10th century during the Heian period, it is considered the oldest surviving work in the form.
The story detail ...
'', novel,
De Geus)
* 2006 – ''De man met de hoed'' (novel, Ad.Donker)
* 2014 – ''Lily Dumont'' (novel,
Auteursdomein)
* 2018 – ''Grachtenhuis'' (novel,
Auteursdomein)
* 2019 – ''Digital Painting'' (non-fiction,
Auteursdomein)
* 2021 – ''Dagboek 1999-2001'' (
Auteursdomein)
References
External links
Pauline van de Ven(in Dutch),
Digital Library for Dutch Literature
The Digital Library for Dutch Literature (Dutch: Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren or DBNL) is a website (showing the abbreviation as dbnl) about Dutch language and Dutch literature. It contains thousands of literary texts, second ...
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1956 births
Living people
Dutch writers
People from Valkenburg aan de Geul
Dutch artists