Pauline van de Ven

Pauline van de Ven
Pauline van de Ven in 2011
Born (1956-01-02) 2 January 1956
OccupationsWriter, artist
Writing career
LanguageDutch
Notable awards
  • Halewijn Prize
    2014

Pauline van de Ven (born 2 January 1956) is a Dutch writer, visual artist and economist.[1] She made her debut with Uitgeverij Balans in 1997 with the social satire Drijvend Paviljoen and wrote six novels and a number of illustrated stories. In 2014 she received the Halewijn Prize for her entire oeuvre. Her digital painting has been awarded several times. In nonfiction she wrote the first Dutch newspaper article [2] about the rise of Internet (NRC, 1984) and two books on economics, one a study of the depression of 1980-1984 (Balans 1985, co-authored with Pieter Lakeman) the other an analysis of stock market cascade mechanisms with an accurate prediction of the crash of 1987 (Balans, 1986).

Biography

Pauline van de Ven was born in Houthem, and grew up in Bunde, a rural village in South Limburg.[3] Her father was mayor of Bunde and Geulle, and her mother was a lawyer.[4] The family with three children lived in Rustenburg in an idyllic environment of farmers and fruit growers near the river Geul, but fell apart when the mother died in 1963. Van de Ven was cared for by a farming and a mining family in the village and the manufacturing family of her grandparents. Under the father's second marriage, the family was reunited. After high school, she sold magazines and movie tickets, priced books, filled cement bags, guided tourists and filled out policy numbers. Journalism was a long-cherished wish. She then worked on the economic editorial boards of Trouw, NRC, Intermediair and other media and graduated in 1995 in environmental economics from the University of Amsterdam.[4] In 1997 she made her debut at Uitgeverij Balans with the social satire Drijvend Paviljoen.[5] In 2000 she wound up her work as a journalist to devote herself fully to writing and painting.

After she left publishing house De Geus, she founded the Auteursdomein in 2005, together with Eisjen Schaaf, a non-profit publisher and advocate for authors.[6]

Selected bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Pauline van de Ven, de weg terug Spui #41, 2014, p. 31
  2. ↑ Pauline van de Ven, oudste Nederlandse krantenartikel over internet, (NRC, 1984)
  3. ↑ "Pauline van de Ven te gast in het L1 Cultuurcafé" (in Dutch). L1. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  4. 1 2 Cobben, Rob. "Pauline van de Ven schrijft en schildert om haar emoties te verwerken" (in Dutch). De Limburger. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "Pauline van de Ven". www.paulinevandeven.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  6. ↑ Lirabulletin, number 24, December 2007, Auteursdomein: nieuwe levens voor oude boeken