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Draft:Sytze Backer
Sytze Backer
Occupations
  • Novelist
  • Short story writer
  • Poet
Writing career
LanguageDutch
Period1983–1995
Genres
  • Literary fiction
  • Short fiction
  • Prose poetry
  • Science fiction
Notable works
  • Het Beest (1983)
  • Een Vreemde Vogel (1987)
  • Onder Honden (1988)
  • Amoebe Tien (1995)
Websitesytze.home.xs4all.nl

Sytze Backer is the name used for an anonymous Dutch literary project that published ten works of fiction between 1983 and 1995. The works were issued through small, independent imprints and include novellas, short story collections, and prose poetry. No biographical details about the person or group behind the name have been confirmed.

Bibliographic records list the project in Dutch literary periodicals in the 1980s and early 1990s, and at least one work appeared in a conventionally published anthology.[1][2][3] The complete bibliography has been available online since 1993 via the project's website, one of the earliest examples of Dutch literary material published on the public internet. The site is preserved by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) as part of its XS4ALL web collection.[4]

Identity and anonymity

The project's website describes Sytze Backer as an anonymous, autonomous artistic project and states that any speculation about identity is unverified and not endorsed. No photograph, biography, or contact information appears on the site.

Metadata recorded on the site indicates it went online on 20 April 1993 via CompuServe, moved to Stichting Knoware in Utrecht on 11 November 1993, and was transferred to XS4ALL in Amsterdam on 30 May 1995. The last recorded modification was on 4 December 1998.[5] HTML composition notes list writing locations including Eindhoven, Zandvoort, Breda, Quiberon, Geertruidenberg, Apeldoorn, and Den Helder.[5]

It is unknown whether the project produced further work after 1995.

Works

The project published ten works between 1983 and 1995: novellas, a novel, short story collections, and prose poetry.[6] The fiction is set primarily in Breda and its surroundings, which recur across multiple works.[6]

Style and themes

A 2026 study by Peter van Vliet describes the style as using short sentences and elliptical narration.[6] The works repeatedly explore the tension between individual selfhood and collective structures, and use Breda as a consistently rendered fictional setting.[7]

Bibliography

Books

Year Title Type Imprint
1983 Het Beest Novella Sydeline
1983 Vragen Prose poetry collection Sykkel
1985 Het Drijven Prose and poetry collection Sykkel
1987 Een Vreemde Vogel Novella Sykkel
1988 Non Qua Sytze Short story cycle (12 stories) Sykkel
1988 Onder Honden Short story collection (4 stories) Sykkel
1989 Amarylle Short prose (5 pages) KRIEZIS
1989 Ballaria Novella InnoPress
1989–1992 Verhalen van de Nacht Short story collection (9 stories); published 1995 Tsupsirkwi
1995 Amoebe Tien Novel Tsupsirkwi

Anthology contributions

  • "Diederik" (5 pp.), in: In het jaar 2001 en een mixture van andere verhalen, ed. Roel Oostra. Roermond: De Vleermuis, 1990. ISBN 90-71151-38-7[3]

"Diederik" also appears in the collection Onder Honden (1988). It is the only confirmed appearance of the project's work in a conventionally produced anthology.

Digital presence

The project's website has been available at sytze.home.xs4all.nl since 1993, predating De Digitale Stad (1994), one of the first public internet initiatives in the Netherlands.[6] The site is trilingual (Dutch, Frisian, English) and is preserved by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) as part of its XS4ALL web collection of early Dutch homepages (1993–2001).[8][4]

Reception

No reviews of the project's work in major Dutch national newspapers have been identified from the period of publication. The project is documented in bibliographic reference works that list contributions to literary periodicals.[1][2]

The first extended discussion of the complete bibliography appears in a 2026 study by Peter van Vliet.[6]

Literary context

Van Vliet describes the project's prose as syntactically shorter and more formally experimental than the dominant postwar Dutch mode, without aligning explicitly with American minimalism.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b Van Assche and Baeyens 1987.
  2. ^ a b Van Assche and Baeyens 1992.
  3. ^ a b Fandata 1990.
  4. ^ a b Koninklijke Bibliotheek 2022.
  5. ^ a b Van Vliet 2026, p. 168.
  6. ^ a b c d e Van Vliet 2026.
  7. ^ Van Vliet 2026, p. 82.
  8. ^ Koninklijke Bibliotheek 2020.
  9. ^ Van Vliet 2026, p. 108.

Sources


Category:Dutch-language writers Category:20th-century Dutch writers Category:Self-published authors Category:Anonymous works

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