Eva MeijerEva Meijer is a philosopher, visual artist, writer and singer-songwriter. Her fiction and nonfiction has been translated into over twenty languages. Since the publication of her first novel in 2011, her works have been receiving numerous award, including the Halewijnprijs honouring her oeuvre. Her books have been met enthusiastically by the Dutch but also international press including reviews in The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and The New York Review of Books. Recurring themes are language including silence, madness, nonhuman animals, and politics. Meijer also works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and Wageningen University. She writes essays and columns for NRC newspaper, and is a member of the Multispecies Art Collective.