Nightfather

Carl Friedman

1991

He never mentions it by name. It might have been Trebibor or Majdawitz, Soblinka or Birkenhausen. He talks about “the camp,” as if there had been just one.

“After the war,” he says, “I saw a film about the camp. With prisoners frying an egg for breakfast.” He slaps his forehead with the palm of his hand. “An egg!” he says shrilly. “In the camp!”

So…

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Creator Bio

Carl Friedman

b. 1952

Carl Friedman was born Caroline Friedman, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. She is a novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and translator who has worked in Belgium and now lives in Amsterdam. Many of her works explore themes from the Holocaust. Friedman made her debut as a novelist in 1991 with Tralievader (Nightfather), which was adapted into a film in 1995. In 1993 she published Twee koffers vol (The Shovel and the Loom), a novel that in 1998 was made into the film Left Luggage.

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