by Kees van Beijnum · De Bezige Bij · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789023412342
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«Dichter op de Zeedijk» is Kees van Beijnum's semi-autobiographical novel, published by De Bezige Bij in paperback (268 pages, in Dutch).
Constant Wegman grows up in his grandmother's café-hotel, an establishment of dubious reputation in Amsterdam's red-light district. To survive among bars and brothels, he builds his own world, a refuge for romance and dreams. The novel tenderly describes a youth among alcoholics, fallen angels, a fearless grandmother and a seventeenth-century poet.
This edition of «Dichter op de Zeedijk» is the sixteenth; the novel was originally published in 1995 and was nominated for the AKO/ECI Literatuurprijs.
For readers of contemporary Dutch fiction and literary fiction with an urban setting.
Kees van Beijnum is a Dutch writer. He grew up in Amsterdam, where his mother had a bar near the Zeedijk. Before he became a writer, he was a journalist. He made his debut as a novelist in 1991 with Over het IJ, a non-fiction novel about a murder case in Amsterdam.
