Author Oscar van den Boogaard (1964) grew up in Surinam and Holland. He studied Law and French Litterature in Montpellier, Amsterdam and Brussels. After working for three months as a lawyer he started fulltime writing.
Oscar van den Boogaard was heralded as the most important Dutch-speaking voice of his generation‚ by the newspaper De Standaard. In 1990 Van den Boogaard published his first novel Dentz. After the novels Fremdkörper (1991) and Bruno's optimisme (1993), he reached wide audiences in 1995 with the novel De heerlijkheid van Julia. Other novels followed.
Liefdesdood (1999), Sensaties (2000) and Een bed vol schuim (2002). Van den Boogaard also wites for theatre. His first play Lucia melts (2001), (see www.stan.be/luciamelts) has been staged in festivals in Germany, Sweden, Norway and was invited for the Edinburgh Festival 2004. Nest (2004) (see www.transparant.be/nest) will be opened on the Lille 2004 festival in September. The work of Van den Boogaard has received numerous nominations for literary prizes and has been widely translated.
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Oscar van den Boogaard lives in Berlin, Antwerp and Brussels.
