Dominique de Groen

Dominique De Groen (1991) has published four poetry collections with het balanseer: Shop Girl (2017), Sticky Drama (2019), Offerlam (2020) and Slangen (2022). Her work has received several major awards, including the Jan Campert Prize and the Culture Prize of the City of Ghent. Corpus Britney is her debut novel.

Corpus Britney is a genre-bending novel populated by doppelgängers, ghosts and visions, packed with digressions and stories within stories. Wildly associative and laced with dark humour, it follows Blla Goth, a B-movie horror actress who bears an uncanny resemblance to Britney Spears and vanishes without a trace after a day of filming.

Paranormal detective Malayney Melkzuur sets out to find her, following a trail that stretches across continents and centuries. What unfolds is a hallucinatory journey through pop culture, cyberspace horror and digital ruins, tracing the tangled histories of capitalism all the way to its algorithmically driven present.