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On Sunday 4th May at the Rotterdam Bibliotheektheater, you will have the opportunity of listening to the Radio Books by Nelleke Noordervliet and Jeroen Olyslaegers.

Nelleke Noordervliet (born Rotterdam, 1945) was the first member of her family to go to university. She received her secondary education at 'Maria Virgo', the Roman Catholic lyceum for girls, after which she studied Dutch language and literature in Leiden and Utrecht. After a meandering career at a scientific publishing house, in education and in politics as a local councillor for the Dutch Labour Party, in 1987 she made her debut as an author with Tine of De dalen waar het leven woont ('Tine, or The Valleys Where Life Lives). Her subsequent novels were often nominated for, or indeed awarded, literary prizes. She has been a visiting author at the universities of Groningen, Leiden, Delft and Berlin and at the Sorbonne in Paris. She publishes stories, essays, lectures and columns in weeklies and periodicals.  

Jeroen Olyslaegers (born Mortsel, 1967) studied Germanic philology at the University of Antwerp, after which he was a research assistant at the Louis Paul Boon documentation centre (1989-1992). He then worked for various organisations and festivals in the fields of literature and cinema. In addition to his work as an author, Jeroen Olyslaegers has also worked as a film critic for Humo and other periodicals and as a columnist for Studio Brussel, VPRO, IKON and Radio Klara. He has published the novels Navel (1994), Open gelijk een mond ('Open like a mouth') (1999) and the collection of stories Il faut manger (1996). He also has various prose publications to his name in periodicals such as Humo, Menzo, Yang, Dietsche Warande & Belfort, AS-Andere Sinema, Millennium, Sample, De Vlaamse Gids and Maatstaf. Finally, he has also written seven plays for, amongst others, the KVS and NTGent.

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