Jannah Loontjens

Jannah Loontjens (b. 1974) is a philosopher and writer.

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Her earlier novels include Good Luck (2007), How Late (2011), Actually (2014) and But Then Again. Her work has been translated into Danish and Hungarian.

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Jannah Loontjens

Guilty

Poet, essayist, novelist and philosopher Jannah Loontjens, mother of two growing children, decides not to celebrate Christmas with her mother this year. Afterwards she feels enormously burdened: how should she tell her? And where do those stubborn, everlasting feelings of guilt (about her lover, her children, that one glass of wine too many, her own body – the list goes on) actually come from?

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