The Safekeep
Lambda Literary Award for Fiction · 2025 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Lambda Literary Award for FictionLesbian Fiction | 2025 | Winner |
About This Book
A novel set in 1960s Netherlands about a woman whose controlled life is disrupted by her cousin's Jewish girlfriend, revealing the hidden history of Dutch collaboration during the Holocaust.
About the Author
Yael van der WoudenDutch
Yael van der Wouden was born in 1991 in Israel and moved to the Netherlands as a child, growing up in a Dutch-Israeli Jewish household. She studied literature and later creative writing, and works as a writer, editor, and critic in the Netherlands. Writing in English as her literary language, she emerged as a significant new voice in international fiction with her debut novel. Read more →
