Bibliotheek Gent: De Krook

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‘De Krook’ opened the 10th of March 2017. The complex contains the library of Gent but also offices and laboratories of the university of Gent and a research centre for nano-electronics and digital technology IMEC. Before the entrance of the library there is a work ‘De passanten’ from the sculptor Michaël Borremans.

PREVIOUS NOMINATIONS

2026

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Long Island Compromise

2025

Howard Jacobson

What will survive of us

2024

Jessie Burton

The House of Fortune

2023

Colm Tóibín

The Magician

2022

Diane Cook

The New Wilderness

2021

Colson Whitehead

The Nickel Boys

2020

Willy Vlautin

Don’t Skip Out on Me

2020

Lisa Halliday

Asymmetry

2020

Imogen Hermes Gowar

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

2019

Elizabeth Strout

Anything is Possible

2019

John Boyne

The Heart’s Invisible Furies

2019

John Banville

Mrs. Osmond

2018

Madeleine Thien

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

2018

Zadie Smith

Swing Time

2018

Dave Eggers

Heroes of the Frontier

2017

Margaret Atwood

The Heart Goes Last

2012

David Mitchell

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

2012

Don DeLillo

Point Omega

2011

Colm Tóibín

Brooklyn

2009

Philip Roth

Exit Ghost

2009

Jonathan Coe

The Rain Before it Falls

2009

Mohsin Hamid

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

2008

Philip Roth

Everyman

2008

Mark Haddon

A Spot of Bother

2007

Ali Smith

The Accidental

2007

John Banville

The Sea

2007

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2006

Kent Haruf

Eventide

2006

Merete Morken Anderson

Oceans of Time

2006

Susanna Clarke

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

2005

Nicci French

Secret Smile

2005

Peter Ackroyd

The Clerkenwell Tales

2005

Margaret Atwood

Oryx and Crake

2003

Nick Hornby

How to be Good

2002

Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin

2002

Philip Roth

The Human Stain

2002

Joseph O’Connor

Inishowen

2001

Roddy Doyle

A Star Called Henry

2001

J. M. Coetzee

Disgrace

2001

Charles Palliser

The Unburied

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