# Peter Terrin

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{{Short description|Belgian novelist (born 1968)}}
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'''Peter Terrin''' (born 3 October 1968) is a Belgian novelist, and a winner of the [European Union Prize for Literature](/source/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](/source/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](/source/G%C3%B6teborgsposten)|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](/source/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](/source/Knack_(magazine))'', a Belgian weekly that Terrin blogged for, described ''Blanco'' as the best Dutch-language novel about the father-son relationship since [Ferdinand Bordewijk](/source/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](/source/Eileen_Battersby) in ''[The Irish Times](/source/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](/source/The_Irish_Times)|accessdate=30 October 2012}}</ref> won the [European Union Prize for Literature](/source/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](/source/European_Union)|accessdate=27 June 2020}}</ref> and his novel ''Post mortem'' won the 2012 [AKO Literatuurprijs](/source/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](/source/Knack_(magazine))|language=Dutch|accessdate=30 October 2012}}</ref>

Terrin cites [Willem Frederik Hermans](/source/Willem_Frederik_Hermans) as an important influence for his minimalist style, and critics have recognized the influence of [J. Bernlef](/source/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"/>

==References==
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