Marion Pauw won with her thriller bird island the NBD Biblion Gouden Strop 2022: the prize for the best Dutch-language exciting book of the year. This was just announced during the Evening of the Exciting Book in the Neude library in Utrecht, where the four biggest thriller prizes were awarded.
‘Read in one go’
The jury awarded the prize because the book was written by an author who knows how to drag the reader into a history that starts innocently but gets more and more sinister. A book that the jury members read in one sitting, which has a beautiful tension and is difficult to predict due to the originality of the story. Pauw already won the prize in 2009 and is the first female author to win the most important thriller prize twice.
Even more thriller prizes
Three other prizes were also awarded this evening. Anya Niewierra won with the camino the most important reader award for thrillers. Earlier this month she managed to enter the top 1000 best books of all time in place 116. The NBD Biblion Shadow Prize, the incentive prize for the best thriller debut, was won by Bas Haan for his debut. Lenoir† The Zilveren Strop, a jury prize for the best Dutch-language exciting story, was won by Marjolein van der Gaag with her story Below the water surface† In short: the book list for your holiday is complete with these 4 exciting thrillers!