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Jeroen Olyslaegers

Jeroen Olyslaegers

Jeroen Olyslaegers (1967) is a Flemish novelist and playwright. His critically acclaimed novel WILL (2016) was on the shortlist for the prestigious Dutch Libris Literature Prize and won the Flemish Fintro Literature Prize in 2017. Before Olyslaegers’ breakthrough as a novelist, he made his name in the world of theatre. He wrote and rewrote plays and in recent years regularly collaborates with Flemish artist Jan Fabre.