Yael van der Wouden, a 37-year-old Dutch author, recently celebrated the win of her first novel 'The Safekeep' at the Women's Prize for Fiction. The book, which delves into the Holocaust's legacy in the Netherlands through a love story between two women, was also shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. Van der Wouden, who publicly discussed her intersex identity for the first time during her acceptance speech, emphasized the importance of trans healthcare and expressed gratitude toward the community that supports it.
I wrote this book from a place of hopelessness, I was looking for a ray of sunshine.
It's heartbreaking to see so much hatred toward trans identities, queer identities.
I am receiving truly the greatest honour of my life as a woman, presenting to you as a woman and accepting this Women's prize.
Set in the Netherlands in 1961, The Safekeep is a tense psychological thriller and tender love story between two very different women, Isabel and Eva.
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