{"id":11535,"date":"2025-09-07T18:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pierremertens.be\/?page_id=11535"},"modified":"2026-03-28T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:26:14","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pierremertens.be\/en\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11592 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/pierremertens.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-08-at-8.14.18-AM-1024x594.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pierremertens.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-08-at-8.14.18-AM-1024x594.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pierremertens.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-08-at-8.14.18-AM-300x174.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pierremertens.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-08-at-8.14.18-AM-768x445.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pierremertens.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-08-at-8.14.18-AM-1536x891.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pierremertens.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-08-at-8.14.18-AM.jpeg 1538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 2rem;\">\n<li>(2009) <em>Papa, wat is een handicap? (Daddy, what is a disability?)<\/em> Antwerp: Uitgeverij Vrijdag. Book on society and disability, translated and published in Slovakia and Poland<\/li>\n<li>(2003) <em>The Gap \u2013 Recent projects 1999-2003<\/em>. Stichting Target Foundation.<\/li>\n<li>(1993-97) <em>Het Brievenkabinet<\/em>, Letters about philosophy and art with xxx.<\/li>\n<li>(1994) <em>The ugly duck \u2013 art and mental disability<\/em>. Publisher: Art&amp;Society.<\/li>\n<li>(1991) <em>Tulpen in November \u2013 een kunstenaar, een demente vrouw en haar man<\/em> Tulips in November \u2013 an artist, a woman with Alzheimer disease, and her husband). Publisher: Dedalus. Translated and published in Slovakia and Poland.<\/li>\n<li>(2001) <em>Liesje<\/em>. Antwerp\/Vianen: The House of Books.Translated in Norwegian, French, Slovak (2007), Italian (2007), English (2008) and Turkish (2013). Second edition 2024 in Dutch and Slovak (Pelkmans \/ Spolok).<\/li>\n<li>(2025) Bare Together \/ Samen Bloot<\/li>\n<li>(2026) Covers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(2009) Papa, wat is een handicap? (Daddy, what is a disability?) Antwerp: Uitgeverij Vrijdag. 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