Production company Quay Street Productions are planning to adapt The Things we saw for television. Picador will publish it in May 2022 in the UK, HMH/ Mariner Books in the US as We had to remove this Post. In 2021 her novella The Things we saw was published for Dutch Book Week in a first print run of 650,000 copies. Welcome to the Kingdom of the Sick became an instant bestseller when it was published in 2019. Excerpts and short stories were published on international platforms such as Five Dials and The Guardian.ĭuring the spring of 2018 Bervoets was a resident at Writers Omi at Ledig House, New York, where she worked on her novel Welcome to the Kingdom of the Sick: an adventure story on chronic illness. Her novels are being translated in many languages and were adapted for film and television. In 2017, she was granted the prestigious Frans Kellendonk Prize for her entire body of works. She also writes essays and reviews on media, popular culture and (queer) representation.īervoets received numerous nominations and awards for her work. After earning her Bachelors degree in Cultural Studies and a Masters in Journalism & Research she published eight novels, several screenplays, plays and a short story collection. Stitic, a lawyer who is now representing her former colleagues in a lawsuit.Hanna Bervoets (1984, Amsterdam) is one of the most acclaimed Dutch authors of her generation. The novel takes the form of a confessional, written by Kayleigh to Mr. Hexa employees are expected to work at a merciless pace, and warnings are issued if accuracy scores dip.

Each time, the question was: Is it OK to leave this up on the platform? And if not, why not?” The work turns out to be gruesome and unrelenting. “On the first day of training, a series of text-only posts appeared on our screens, and then, from day three, photos, videos and livestreams. The job means that for hours on end, Kayleigh and her co-workers must review posts that contain racial violence, self-mutilation and animal cruelty in order to determine if they violate Hexa policies. Kayleigh is a new “quality assurance worker” at the social media company Hexa. This is Bervoets’s first novel to be translated - by Emma Rault - into English. Widely acclaimed in the Netherlands, Bervoets is the author of nine books and was recently awarded the Frans Kellendonk Prize for her body of work. Hanna Bervoets’s slim, potent new novel, “We Had to Remove This Post,” appears at first to be the story of a tech workplace gone terribly awry, but it quickly shape-shifts into something more surprising and enigmatic. WE HAD TO REMOVE THIS POST, by Hanna Bervoets, translated by Emma Rault

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