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Niña Weijers studied literary theory in Amsterdam and Dublin. She
has published short stories, essays and articles in various
literary magazines, such as Das Magazin, De Gids and De Revisor. In
2010 she won the writing competition Write Now!. She's a regular
contributor to the weekly magazine De Groene Amsterdammer, and an
editor of De Gids. Her debut novel De consequenties (The
Consequences) was published in May 2014. It won the Anton Wachter
Prize 2014 for best first novel, the Opzij Feminist Literature
Prize, the 2014 Lucy B. & C.W. van der Hoogt Prize, and was
shortlisted for the Libris Prize and the Golden Book Owl, the two
most important Dutch and Flemish literary awards, the latter of
which awarded her with the Reader's Choice Award.
Hester Velmans was born in the Netherlands, educated in Switzerland
and England, and today lives in western Massachusetts. She is a
translator specializing in contemporary Dutch and French
literature. Her translation of Renate Dorrestein’s A Heart of Stone
won the 2001 Vondel Prize; in 2014 she was awarded a U.S. National
Endowment of the Arts Fellowship to translate the neglected
novelist Herman Franke. She is the author of the popular children’s
books Isabel of the Whales and Jessaloup’s Song. Her new novel,
Slipper (Perrault's Mistress) is forthcoming.
The Consequences attempts something that is not easy, and succeeds.
A person thinks exhaustively about herself yet does not become
boring. She writes about what she's doing and you want to know all
about it because it's so vividly told. The temptation not to exist,
to disappear from the world you're walking around in, the art you
come upon and live with - when you write it down it sounds like
heavy going; when you read it it's light. So read it.
- Cees Nooteboom
A bit of mystery, some philosophy, a lot of art and some
existentialism -- out pops a sparkling, surprising, refreshing
story.
- EMOTION
A multifaceted portrait of a female artist ... full of astute
observations.
- B�CHERmagazin
A smart and wry view of the art business, referencing real artists
and told by Minnie with a great deal of irony. At the same time,
[the novel] is an in-depth biography of an artist who experiments
with vanishing into her own art.
- Augsburger Allgemeine
A surprisingly mature debut, shaped by deep knowledge of human
nature.
- Holger Heimann, WDR 3
An impressive novel on the art of creative living or the creative
and destructive vital force of being an artist.
- Maarten Asscher
Birth. Floating identity. Who we are in the eyes of others -- these
themes are at the heart of The Consequences. At first, however, the
book resembles a series of brilliant variations on the contemporary
artistic scene. [...] The tone is created in the first pages.
Ironic and sharp. Weijers mocks the extreme narcissism prevalent in
these circles. She spares us the boring question "What is art?" but
questions the boundaries between artwork and life; the visible and
the interior self. [...] An amazing game of mirrors. [...] Original
and promising. Other books are sure to follow.
- Le Monde
Despite having very few characters, Weijers' prose is sharp,
intimate, and curious.
- The Riveter
How is it that some people aren't able to tell that their own lives
are a highly gripping story? Minnie can't do that. Weijers
fortunately can.
- Vogue
I found the read to be so exhilarating that as the book drew to its
close, it took effort to return to the question about the nature of
Minnie Panis's disappearances. The question: what drives these
disappearances, is stated and restated so many times that it, in
itself, becomes a disappearing act--woven into the very nature of
the book, it disappears from the reader's consciousness. [...] Only
after I finished the novel, did it occur to me that Ni�a Weijers
showcases a particularly female life trajectory in a world where
feminist ideals of equality between genders are a desirable yet
distant goal.
- Olga Zilberbourg, The Common
In this novel, tingling with ambition and fascinating ideas, the
life and art of the main character revolve around loss, existence
and disappearance. A determined tone characterizes this crazy
book.
- NRC Handelsblad
In this sharp book of wry commentary, Minnie's newfound fame and
haunting past come together to explore the nuances of intimacy and
identity.
- World Literature Today
Minnie Panis is a conceptual artist whose near-death experience
during an installation convinces her to seek psychological help.
But is the doctor she's chosen a helper, or a gateway to another
dimension? "The day Minnie Panis vanished from her own life for the
third time. . ." You'll be hooked as I was if you pick up this
serious yet humor-filled examination of a life perhaps too-well
examined--but what would you expect of an artist?
- Literary Hub
Minnie Panis is a Dutch artist of growing international reputation.
One day, she opens Vogue and finds nearly nude photographs of
herself featured in a fashion spread. She did not agree to pose for
these pictures, and yet she instantly knows where they came from: a
photographer she'd been sleeping with had betrayed her and
photographed her asleep; had probably drugged her to capture these
images. Thus begins one of the central storylines in Ni�a Weijers's
remarkable first novel...
- National Book Critics Circle
Ni�a Weijers' remarkable, inventive novel depicts a contemporary
conceptual artist at the height of her fame whose blas� art project
has unintended consequences. Weijers invokes Kurt Vonnegut in the
course of the narrative, and this novel shares Vonnegut's sense of
how things can be simultaneously real and absurd. Movies and books
notoriously fail to capture the social and spiritual atmosphere of
the contemporary art world, but Weijers nails it. Her book is
beautifully written, surprising and often profound.
- Chris Kraus
The novel calls into question the idea that one can effectively
efface the boundary between "life" and "art" and thus achieve an
affirmation of life as art...and there are wonderful and insightful
digressions on the work of the doomed Dutch conceptualist Bas Jan
Ader and Marina Abramovic, the iconic embodiment of the idea of art
as personal presence.
- Glenn Harcourt, Artillery Magazine
The Consequences is a text replete with truths about grief, love
and failed opportunities. Existing is a difficult task, as each
character testifies.
- Lib�ration
This novel is a true must-read, and Weijers is an author all
literate readers should discover. [...] The Consequences is an
astonishing book, shimmering with wit, wisdom, and beauty.
- Garry Craig Powell, Rain Taxi
This sharp and luminous debut novel, of which Beckett is the real
mentor, also gives pride of place to a "neonatalist," in other
words a specialist in newborns, which will not astonish anyone in a
history that speaks of art, that is to say, also, of the search for
origins.
- Le Point
Weijers masterfully slips back and forth between the (temporal)
present and various pasts in Minnie's life, elaborating on her
disappearances and her sadness. ... Weijers' literary inspiration
comes from Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, but she leaves Beckett's
futility behind to deliver a deeply compelling search for meaning
that at times turns on the slightest connections--like the fleeting
nature of life itself.
- Christopher Michno, Riot Material Magazine
Weijers' unusual life and art story is engaging
throughout...Thoroughly enjoyable and agreeably provocative.
- M.A. Orthofer, The Complete Review
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