About Arnon Grunberg
Arnon Grunberg was born in
Amsterdam in 1971, was kicked out of school at age seventeen, and started his
own publishing company two years later.
At age twenty-three, he published his first novel, Blue Mondays, which was a European bestseller and won the Anton Wachter
Prize for debut fiction. His work
has been translated into twenty-one languages. Two of his novels, Phantom Pain
and The Asylum Seeker, won the AKO Literature Prize, the Dutch equivalent of
the Booker Prize. Writing under the pseudonym Marek van der Jagt, he published
The Story of My Baldness, which also won the Anton Wachter Prize, making
Grunberg the only novelist to have won it twice. Grunberg writes columns, book
reviews, and essays for various Dutch and Belgian newspapers and magazines and
a blog for the literary magazine Words without Borders. His most recent novel is The Jewish Messiah.
Character Assassination
By Arnon Grunberg April 10, 2008
From: Arnon To: Adam Re: Knuckle Sandwich Adam, I had to smile when you were describing the reasons for crafting your own jacket copy.When my novel Silent Extras was published in the US, my agent advised me to hire an … Read More
What’s So Wrong with Writing a Farce?
By Arnon Grunberg April 8, 2008
From: Arnon Grunberg To: Adam Mansbach Re: Grotesqueries Adam, Let me reassure you: I can be approached without heavy drinking. Actually I can be approached without drinking at all. The nice thing about the text on a jacket-flap is that … Read More