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“Oh, Franca Treur can capture a whole person and a whole world in one sentence!” – NRC Handelsblad ★★★★

“In Franca Treur’s approach I hear a warm mixture of compassion and homesickness. Her style, in particular, deserves admiration. She knows how to allow people to speak authentically. Her sentences are not only nice to read, but her ideas are also worth pondering.” - PZC

“The characteristics melancholic feeling, the unusual combination of liberation and loss, is even better than before. The mini-portraits that Franca Treur sprinkles through the novel are gripping.” – De Volkskrant ★★★★

“In Hear My Voice Now there are ceaseless highly quotable sentences. Time and again, Franca Treur manages to capture a situation in a few telling images, after which she goes in search of its psychological content […] Hear My Voice Now is a novel about uprooting, guilt, and penance.” – Knack

Author Biography

Franca Treur (1979) is a writer of novels, stories, essays and columns. She made her debut with the award-winning Threshing Floor Full of Confetti, which takes place in a Dutch Reformed environment and has since been made into a film and sold more than 150,000 copies. Later, followed The Roommates, I Would Count on Nothing and a collection of tiny psychological stories, X & Y, which she wrote for NRC Handelsblad. She has also been nominated for, amongst others, the Anton Wachter Prize. In 2014, she was selected for the prestigious IWP-programme at the University of Iowa.