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Eva Meijer

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Eva Meijer
Meijer in 2018
Born1980 (age 45–46)
Websitewww.evameijer.nl

Eva Meijer (born 1980)[1] is a Dutch philosopher, writer, visual artist and singer-songwriter.

Work

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Meijer studied Image and Sound at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and philosophy at The University of Amsterdam. [2] In 2017, they obtained their PhD cum laude in philosophy with a dissertation on the political voice of animals, [3] for which they won the Erasmianum Dissertation Prize. Their dissertation was later released as a book by New York University Press named When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy, which went on to win the ASCA Book Award in 2020.[4]

Meijer has written eight novels, including Bird Cottage (2016) and Forwards (2019).[5] The novella Her Familiar Form was published in 2021, followed in 2022 by Sea Now, a work depicting a dystopian Netherlands affected by severe flooding. As an essayist, Meijer wrote works such as The Soldier Was a Dolphin: On Political Animals (2017), based on their doctoral thesis; this work won the Hypatia Prize. That same year, they received the Halewijn Prize for their body of work. Their writing has been translated into more than twenty languages.[6]

Meijer is a member of the Multispecies Collective,[7] a multispecies art collective,[8] and De Vereniging ter Bevordering van Troost (The Association for the Promotion of Consolation); they are also co-chair of the Dutch Study Group for Animal Philosophy.[9] At the University of Amsterdam, Meijer organized the Long Covid+ Conversations (2024-2025),[10] an online lecture series about Long Covid and other postviral conditions, aimed at fostering solidarity.

Books published in English

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  • Bird Cottage. London: Pushkin, 2018, ISBN 978-1782273936. 2019, ISBN 9781782273950. Translated from the Dutch by Antoinette Fawcett.
  • Animal Languages: The Secret Conversations of the Living World. London/New York: Penguin Random House, 2020. ISBN 9780262044035. Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson.[11]
  • When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy. New York: New York University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1479863136.
  • The Limits of My Language: Meditations on Depression. London: Pushkin, 2021. ISBN 9781782275992. Translated from the Dutch by Antoinette Fawcett
  • Multispecies Dialogues. Doing Philosophy with Animals, Children, the Sea and Others. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2025. ISBN 9789048564415. Available Open Access here.[12]
  • Multispecies Assemblies. Vermont: VINE Press, 2025.
  • Sea Now. Bath: Pereine Press, 2025. Translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo.


Upcoming:

  • Maybe is Another Word for Hope. London: The Philosopher, 2025. Translated from the Dutch by David McKay.


A full list of publications can be accessed on Meijer's website.[13] Academic publications can be found via Orcid.[14]

References

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  1. ↑ Elit. "Eva Meijer". Elit. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
  2. ↑ Meijer, Eva. "CV". Retrieved 24 September 2026.
  3. ↑ Dros, Louis (5 April 2021). "'We have to hold back the pass. With flying, traveling, living, polluting, having children, industry. Everywhere'". Trouw. Retrieved 24 September 2026.
  4. ↑ "https://aihr.uva.nl/content/news/2020/06/asca-book-award.html". University of Amsterdam. 29 June 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2026. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  5. ↑ Meijer, Eva. "Eva Meijer". Uitgeverij Cossee. Retrieved 24 September 2026.
  6. ↑ "Eva Meijer (Writer, Artist, and Philosopher)". Nooit meer slapen. NPO Radio. 2025/03/05. Retrieved 24 September 2026. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ↑ "The Multispecies Collective". themultispeciescollective.cargo.site. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  8. ↑ "Een collectief van honden, muizen, mensen en duiven - Het Meersoortig Collectief - in gesprek met Eva Meijer en GC Heemskerk over de artistieke talenten van het dier". Metropolis M (in Netherlands Dutch). Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  9. ↑ Mackiewicz, Anna (2022-12-13). "Eva Meijer". Unbound Project. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  10. ↑ Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2024-08-08). "Long Covid+ Conversations - ASCA". Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis - University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  11. ↑ "Eva Meijer: Animal Languages review - do you talk crow?". The Arts Desk. 2019-12-15. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
  12. ↑ Multispecies Dialogues (in Dutch). 2025-02-12. ISBN 978-90-485-6442-2.
  13. ↑ "publications". www.evameijer.nl. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  14. ↑ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
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