Marente de Moor

In this Dutch name, the surname is de Moor, not Moor.
Marente de Moor
Marente de Moor - 2024
Marente de Moor - 2024
Born1972
The Hague, Netherlands
OccupationWriter
LanguageDutch
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam
Notable awardsAKO Literatuurprijs (2011)
EU Prize for Literature (2014)
Website
www.marentedemoor.com

Marente de Moor (Dutch pronunciation: [maːˈrɛntə də ˈmoːr]; born 1972) is a Dutch novelist and columnist. She published five novels and two collections of short stories. She won the AKO Literatuurprijs (2011) and the European Union Prize for Literature (2014) for her novel De Nederlandse maagd (2010). Her work is translated into sixteen languages.

Life and career

Marente de Moor was born in 1972 in The Hague in the Netherlands. She is the daughter of writer and piano teacher Margriet de Moor (born 1941) and visual artist Heppe de Moor (1938–1992).[1][2][3] She studied Slavic language and literature at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and graduated in 1999. She lived in Russia from 1991 to 2001.[1]

De Moor was a columnist for De Groene Amsterdammer. A collection of her columns in De Groene was published as Petersburgse vertellingen (Petersburgian tales) in 1999. Since 2009, she is a columnist for Vrij Nederland (VN).[1] A collection of her columns in VN was published as Kleine vogel, grote man (Small bird, big man) in 2013.[4]

Her fiction debut was the novel De overtreder (The offender) in 2007. He second novel De Nederlandse maagd (The Dutch virgin) was published in 2010 and won the AKO Literatuurprijs in 2011 and the European Union Prize for Literature in 2014.[1][5][6] Her third novel Roundhay, tuinscène (Roundhay, garden scene) was published in 2013 (in 2018 as 'Aus dem Licht' by Hanser Verlag.) [7] Her fourth novel 'Phon' was published in 2019 in Dutch and in 2021 in German by Hanser Verlag.

Awards

Bibliography

  • Petersburgse vertellingen. Jaren in Rusland. Amsterdam: Querido. 1999. ISBN 978-90-214-0285-7.
  • De overtreder. Amsterdam: Querido. 2007. ISBN 978-90-214-3353-0.
  • De Nederlandse maagd. Amsterdam: Querido. 2010. ISBN 978-90-214-3842-9.
  • Roundhay, tuinscène. Amsterdam: Querido. 2013. ISBN 978-90-214-4996-8.
  • Kleine vogel, grote man. Maartensdijk: B for books. 2013. ISBN 978-90-8516-283-4.
  • Gezellige verhalen. Amsterdam: Querido. 2015. ISBN 978-90-214-5887-8.
  • Foon. Amsterdam: Querido. 2018. ISBN 978-90-214-1200-9.
  • De schoft. Amsterdam: Querido. 2023. ISBN 978-90-214-7553-0.

References

  1. ^ a b c d (in Dutch) Greta Riemersma, "Interview Marente de Moor: 'Een boek lijkt heel pretentieus'", de Volkskrant, 2011. Retrieved on 13 March 2015.
  2. ^ (in Dutch) G.J. van Bork, "Moor, Margriet de", Schrijvers en dichters, 2010. Retrieved on 13 March 2015.
  3. ^ (in Dutch) Heppe de Moor, Netherlands Institute for Art History, 2013. Retrieved on 13 March 2015.
  4. ^ (in Dutch) Columns, Homepage Marente de Moor. Retrieved on 14 March 2015.
  5. ^ a b (in Dutch) "Marente de Moor wint AKO Literatuurprijs", Nu.nl, 2011. Retrieved on 13 March 2015.
  6. ^ a b (in Dutch) Lucie Th. Vermij, "Marente de Moor wint European Union Prize for Literature 2014, Het Boekblad, 2014. Retrieved on 13 March 2015.
  7. ^ (in Dutch) Frank Heinen, "Roundhay, tuinscène Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine", Vrij Nederland, 2013. Retrieved on 13 March 2015.