The final judgment
"I want to write about the world," says award-winning Flemish author Bart Koubaa. His novels have explored gypsy culture and Japanese history. His Radiobooks story is a Kafkaesque courtroom drama.
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Biography
Bart Koubaa
Bart Koubaa is the literary pseudonym for Bart van den Bossche (1968). His first novel Vuur ('Fire') explored the relationship between a boy and his tyrannical grandfather living in a gypsy camp. The book won the 2000 Flemish Debut Prize. His second novel Lucht ('Air') spans the period in Japanese history from World War II to the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. His book Het gebied van Nevski takes the reader inside the mind of a professor suffering from aphasia after an accident. A neurologist advises him to write every day to aid his recovery. In 2009 he published his fourth novel: De leraar ('The teacher')