{{Short description|Belgian novelist (born 1968)}} thumb|right|Peter Terrin, (2017) '''Peter Terrin''' (born 3 October 1968) is a Belgian novelist, and a winner of the European Union Prize for Literature.<ref name="eu"/> He is the author of several novels and two collections of short stories.
==Biography== Terrin's first novel, ''Kras'' ("Scratch") was published in 2001, and his 2003 novel ''Blanco'' ("Blank"), described as a "Kafka-like reality breakdown" and translated into Swedish in 2006<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.gp.se/kulturnoje/litteratur/1.130625-livet-ar-livsfarligt|title=Recension: Peter Terrin - ''Blanko''|last=Werkmäster|first=Johan|date=16 September 2009|work=Göteborgsposten|language=Swedish|accessdate=30 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714222925/http://www.gp.se/kulturnoje/litteratur/1.130625-livet-ar-livsfarligt|archive-date=14 July 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> was his breakthrough.<ref name="letteren">{{cite web|url=http://www.letterenfonds.nl/en/author/281/peter-terrin|title=Peter Terrin|publisher=Nederlands Letterenfonds|accessdate=30 October 2012|archive-date=14 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714201215/http://www.letterenfonds.nl/en/author/281/peter-terrin|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''Knack'', a Belgian weekly that Terrin blogged for, described ''Blanco'' as the best Dutch-language novel about the father-son relationship since Ferdinand Bordewijk's ''Karakter''.<ref name="knack"/> His third novel, ''Vrouwen en kinderen eerst'' ("Women and Children First") was published in 2004.
Terrin's 2009 novel ''De bewaker'' (translated into English in 2012, "The Guard"), called a "coldly beautiful, dystopian allegory" by Eileen Battersby in ''The Irish Times'',<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/1020/1224325490377.html|title=Taking care of the tower in European style|last=Battersby|first=Eileen|date=20 October 2012|work=The Irish Times|accessdate=30 October 2012}}</ref> won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2010,<ref name="eu">{{cite web|url=https://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/peter-terrin|title=Peter Terrin - European Union Prize for Literature|publisher=European Union|accessdate=27 June 2020}}</ref> and his novel ''Post mortem'' won the 2012 AKO Literatuurprijs.<ref name="knack">{{cite news|url=http://www.knack.be/nieuws/boeken/blogs/boeken-insider/post-mortem-groet-peter-terrin-j-bernlef/opinie-4000201053588.htm|title=''Post mortem'' groet Peter Terrin J.Bernlef|last=Hellemans|first=Frank|date=30 October 2012|work=Knack|language=Dutch|accessdate=30 October 2012}}</ref>
Terrin cites Willem Frederik Hermans as an important influence for his minimalist style, and critics have recognized the influence of J. Bernlef in his prose.<ref name="knack"/>
==Published books==
===Novels=== *''Kras'' ("Scratch"), 2001<ref name="letteren"/> *''Blanco'' ("Blank"), 2003 (trans. into Swedish)<ref name="letteren"/> *''Vrouwen en kinderen eerst'' ("Women and Children First"), 2004<ref name="letteren"/> *''De bewaker'' ("The Guard"), 2009 (trans. into English, Italian, French, German, Slovenian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian, Czech, Bulgarian, Croatian, Catalan)<ref name="letteren"/> *''Post mortem'', 2012 *''Monte Carlo'', 2014 *''Yucca'', 2016 *''Patricia'', 2018 *''Al het blauw'', 2021
===Short stories=== *''De code'' ("The Code"), 1998<ref name="letteren"/> *''De bijeneters'' ("The Bee Eaters"), 2006<ref name="letteren"/>
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