Lucas Rijneveld was born in 1991 in the Netherlands and grew up in a Reformed farming family. His first novel, The Discomfort of Evening, won the International Booker Prize 2020 and the ANV Debut Prize. In the same year the Dutch edition of My Heavenly Favourite was published and was shortlisted for the Libris Literature Prize and was awarded both the Boon and F. Bordewijk prizes. Rijneveld's work has been translated into 39 languages.Michele Hutchison is a literary translator from Dutch and French into English. In 2020, Michele won the Vondel Translation Prize for her translation of 'Stage Four' by Sander Kollaard and the International Booker Prize together with author Lucas Rijneveld for The Discomfort of Evening.

Lucas Rijneveld was born in 1991 in the Netherlands and grew up in a Reformed farming family. His first novel, The Discomfort of Evening, won the International Booker Prize 2020 and the ANV Debut Prize. In the same year the Dutch edition of My Heavenly Favourite was published and was shortlisted for the Libris Literature Prize and was awarded both the Boon and F. Bordewijk prizes. Rijneveld's work has been translated into 39 languages.Michele Hutchison is a literary translator from Dutch and French into English. In 2020, Michele won the Vondel Translation Prize for her translation of 'Stage Four' by Sander Kollaard and the International Booker Prize together with author Lucas Rijneveld for The Discomfort of Evening.

Lucas Rijneveld was born in 1991 in the Netherlands and grew up in a Reformed farming family. His first novel, The Discomfort of Evening, won the International Booker Prize 2020 and the ANV Debut Prize. In the same year the Dutch edition of My Heavenly Favourite was published and was shortlisted for the Libris Literature Prize and was awarded both the Boon and F. Bordewijk prizes. Rijneveld's work has been translated into 39 languages.Michele Hutchison is a literary translator from Dutch and French into English. In 2020, Michele won the Vondel Translation Prize for her translation of 'Stage Four' by Sander Kollaard and the International Booker Prize together with author Lucas Rijneveld for The Discomfort of Evening.