Tommy Wieringa (born 20 May 1967) is a Dutch writer.Tommy Wieringa

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. Retrieved on 2013-12-10. He received the

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in 2006 for his novel ''Joe Speedboot'' (2005), and the

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in 2013 for the novel (2012). In 2018 he won the

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for his novel ''De heilige Rita'' (The Blessed Rita). His novel ''The Death of Murat Idrissi'', translated by Sam Garrett from Dutch, was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2019. However, it was critically panned and even banned from certain high schools and universities in

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, USA, for racist and sexist language.

Bibliography

* (1995) * (1997) * (2002) * (2005) ; English translation: ''Joe Speedboat'' (2009) * (2005) * (2006) * (2009) ; English translations: ''Caesarion'' (2011), ''Little Caesar'' (2012) * (2010) * (2010) * (2010) * (2012) English translation: ''These are the Names'' (2015, Scribe Publishing) * (2014) English translation: ''A beautiful Young Wife'' (2016) * (2017) English translation: ''The death of Murat Idrissi'' (2017) * (2017) English translation: ''The Blessed Rita'' (2018) * (2019)

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Tommy Wieringa
official website hosted by publisher De Bezige Bij 1967 births Living people 20th-century Dutch novelists 20th-century Dutch male writers 21st-century Dutch novelists Dutch male novelists Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize winners People from Hof van Twente 21st-century Dutch male writers Refugees and displaced people in fiction {{Netherlands-writer-stub