David Van Reybrouck (b. 1971) is a journalist, a writer of literary non-fiction, a poet and a playwright. He made his debut in 2001 with the award-winning The plague. His greatest succes is Congo, a History, for which he received a slew of national and international prizes including the Libris History Prize 2010, the Jan Greshoff Prize 2010 and the AKO Literature Prize 2010. The book was a runaway succes in Germany, France and Norway and was translated into many languages. A Plea for Populism won him the Jan Hanlo Essay Prize 2009 and the Flemish Cultural Prize for Criticism and the Essay 2009. 2013 saw the publication of Against Elections, an urgent call for the reform of democracy, which has been sold to fifteen territories to date. In March 2016 Zinc was the official ‘Dutch Book Week 2016’ essay.
Recent titles – English material
Revolusi, 2020
De 0dyssee van Mohamed (written with Mohammed El Bachiri) (Mohamed’s Odyssee), 2019
Odes, 2018
Een jihad voor liefde (written with Mohammed El Bachiri) (A Jihad for Love), 2017
Zink (Zinc), 2016
Congo, 2010