Yael van der Wouden

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Yael van der Wouden


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Tel Aviv, Israel
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Yael van der Wouden is a writer and teacher. She currently lectures in creative writing and comparative literature in the Netherlands. Her essay on Dutch identity and Jewishness, On (Not) Reading Anne Frank, has received a notable mention in The Best American Essays 2018. The Safekeep is her debut novel and was acquired in hotly-contested nine-way auctions in both the UK and the US. Rights have sold in a further twelve countries. In 2024 it was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

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The Safekeep

4.07 avg rating — 108,338 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions
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“That's what happens when people die. They take themselves with them and you never ever find out anything new about them ever.”
Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“What was joy, anyway. What was the worth of happiness that left behind a crater thrice the size of its impact.”
Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“She had made the kitchen a lovely place. Isabel could cry at it: at how a room could be made, and left behind, and turn terrible by way of absence. How a space could miss a person.”
Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

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