{"id":243291,"date":"2012-01-06T12:53:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T11:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vo.hollands-spoor.com\/schrijvers\/sipko-melissen\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:48:27","slug":"sipko-melissen","status":"publish","type":"oorschot_writer","link":"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/writers\/sipko-melissen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sipko Melissen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sipko Melissen (1944) publiceerde gedichten (<em>Gezicht op Sloten<\/em>, 1985) en romans. Met <em>Jongemannen aan zee<\/em> (1997) won hij de Anton Wachterprijs voor het beste debuut. Daarna verschenen nog onder meer<em> De vendelzwaaier<\/em> en <em>Spiegelpanden<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Een kamer in Rome<\/em> (2012) was zijn eerste boek dat bij Van Oorschot verscheen. De roman werd verscheidene malen herdrukt, genomineerd voor zowel de AKO als de Libris Literatuurprijs en kreeg lovende kritieken. Daarna volgden <em>Oud-Loosdrecht<\/em> (2014), de essaybundel <em>Kafka op Norderney<\/em> (2017), de novelle <em>De vierde mei<\/em> (2020) en de verhalenbundel <em>Arkadia<\/em> (2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sipko Melissen (1944) publiceerde gedichten (Gezicht op Sloten, 1985) en romans. Met Jongemannen aan zee (1997) won hij de Anton Wachterprijs voor het beste debuut. Daarna verschenen nog onder meer De vendelzwaaier en Spiegelpanden. Een kamer in Rome (2012) was zijn eerste boek dat bij Van Oorschot verscheen. De roman werd verscheidene malen herdrukt, genomineerd&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/writers\/sipko-melissen\/\">Lees verder <span class=\"read-more-arrow\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243292,"menu_order":52,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-243291","oorschot_writer","type-oorschot_writer","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sipko Melissen &#183; Uitgeverij Van Oorschot<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/writers\/sipko-melissen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sipko Melissen &#183; Uitgeverij Van Oorschot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sipko Melissen (1944) publiceerde gedichten (Gezicht op Sloten, 1985) en romans. 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