and Wageningen University and Research Centre. In October 2014, he became an honorary fellow at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Amsterdam. His lectures focused on issues related to privacy and surveillance, and together with his students he developed a video game. The lecture series coincided with an exhibit on the author's life and work, the materials for which were sourced from his own literary archives, which were on loan to the university library's Special Collections department, making them a unique, "living" archive. In an attempt to understand the creative process, Grunberg wrote his latest novel Het Bestand (which, in Dutch, can refer to both a computer file and a truce) while scientists were measuring his brain activity, emotions, and subjective feelings. Using screen capture and physiological measurements such as EEG, GSR and ECG, and subjective questionnaires for the author, scientists correlated the writing of emotionally charged passages with physiological activity. The second stage of the experiment took place in October and November 2015 in the GrunbergLab at the University of Amsterdam, where volunteers' brain activity was measured while they were reading the novel in a controlled environment. Awards 1994 Anton Wachter Prize for Blauwe maandagen 1996 Gouden Ezelsoor for Blauwe maandagen 2000 Anton Wachter Prize for De geschiedenis van mijn kaalheid as Marek van der Jagt 2000 AKO Literature Prize for Fantoompijn 2002 Golden Owl Literature Prize for De mensheid zij geprezen 2004 AKO Literature Prize for The Asylum Seeker 2004 Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize for The Asylum Seeker 2007 Golden Owl Literature Prize for Tirza 2007 Libris Prize for Tirza 2009 Constantijn Huygens Prize for his entire oeuvre 2017 Gouden Ganzenveer 2021 P.C. Hooft Award for "his enormous contribution to Dutch Literature" 2022 Johannes Vermeer Prize Selected bibliography Novels (1994) Blauwe maandagen; English translation: Blue Mondays (1997) (1997) Figuranten; English translation: Silent Extras (2001) (1998) De heilige Antonio (The Saint of the Impossible) (2000) Fantoompijn; English translation: Phantom Pain (2004) (2000) De geschiedenis van mijn kaalheid as Marek van der Jagt; English translation: The Story of My Baldness (2004) (2001) De Mensheid zij geprezen, Lof der Zotheid 2001 (Praised be Mankind, Praise of Folly 2001) (2002) Gstaad 95–98 as Marek van der Jagt (2003) De asielzoeker (The Asylum Seeker) (2004) De joodse messias; English translation: The Jewish Messiah (2008) (2006) Tirza; English translation: Tirza (2013) (2008) Onze oom (Our Uncle) (2010) Huid en Haar (Tooth and Nail)