Magenta

On 24 September, Linnaeus Boekhandel will host the festive launch of Magenta, the new novella by Nadia de Vries, published by Uitgeverij Oevers as volume 8 in the Kleurenreeks series.

Magenta is a claustrophobic novella about the parallels between human and animal. During a sweltering summer, thirty-five-year-old M. suspects that her husband is having an affair. The only witness who can confirm her suspicions is a mosquito living in their bedroom. Through this mosquito, M. unwillingly enters into a blood-sisterhood with her rival, prompting her to question her autonomy, her individuality, and her role in the lives of others.

Doors open at 17:30, the event begins at 18:00. Advance registration is required and can be made via info@linnaeusboekhandel.nl.

About Nadia de Vries
Nadia is a writer and cultural scholar. She is the author of Kleinzeer (2019) and two English-language poetry collections, Dark Hour (2018) and I Failed to Swoon (2021), both published by the British press Dostoyevsky Wannabe. In 2020 she obtained her PhD at the University of Amsterdam with a dissertation on online images of the human corpse. That same year, NRC named her one of the “10 Literary Talents of the New Decade,” and she received the Basisprijs of the Prijs voor de Jonge Kunstkritiek. She regularly writes about art for Het Parool, De Witte Raaf, and Metropolis M, and is an editor at the literary magazine nY. Her poetry has been translated into Russian, Polish, Latvian, and Romanian. In May 2022 her debut novel De bakvis was published, which was longlisted for the 2023 Libris Literature Prize.