Marente de Moor
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Marente de Moor ({{IPA|nl|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).{{in lang|nl}} Greta Riemersma, "[http://www.volkskrant.nl/agenda/interview-marente-de-moor-een-boek-lijkt-heel-pretentieus~a3006181/ Interview Marente de Moor: 'Een boek lijkt heel pretentieus']", de Volkskrant, 2011. Retrieved on 13 March 2015.{{in lang|nl}} G.J. van Bork, "[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bork001schr01_01/bork001schr01_01_0788.php Moor, Margriet de]", Schrijvers en dichters, 2010. Retrieved on 13 March 2015.{{in lang|nl}} [https://rkd.nl/nl/home/artists/57503 Heppe de Moor], Netherlands Institute for Art History, 2013. Retrieved on 13 March 2015. She studied Slavic language and literature at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and graduated in 1999. She lived in Russia from 1991 to 2001.
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). A collection of her columns in VN was published as Kleine vogel, grote man (Small bird, big man) in 2013.{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.marentedemoor.com/columns.html Columns], Homepage Marente de Moor. Retrieved on 14 March 2015.
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.{{in lang|nl}} "[http://www.nu.nl/boek/2656006/marente-moor-wint-ako-literatuurprijs.html Marente de Moor wint AKO Literatuurprijs]", Nu.nl, 2011. Retrieved on 13 March 2015.{{in lang|nl}} Lucie Th. Vermij, "[http://www.boekblad.nl/marente-de-moor-wint-european-union-prize-for.241752.lynkx Marente de Moor wint European Union Prize for Literature 2014], Het Boekblad, 2014. Retrieved on 13 March 2015. Her third novel Roundhay, tuinscène (Roundhay, garden scene) was published in 2013 (in 2018 as 'Aus dem Licht' by Hanser Verlag.) {{in lang|nl}} Frank Heinen, "[http://www.vn.nl/Boeken/Review/Roundhay-tuinscene.htm Roundhay, tuinscène] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402135636/http://www.vn.nl/Boeken/Review/Roundhay-tuinscene.htm |date=2015-04-02 }}", Vrij Nederland, 2013. Retrieved on 13 March 2015. Her fourth novel 'Phon' was published in 2019 in Dutch and in 2021 in German by Hanser Verlag.
Awards
- AKO Literatuurprijs (2011) for De Nederlandse maagd
- European Union Prize for Literature (2014) for De Nederlandse maagd
- J.M.A. Biesheuvelprijs (2016) for Gezellige verhalen
- F.Bordewijkprijs (2019) for Foon
- Jan Wolkersprijs (2019) for Foon
Bibliography
- {{cite book |author= |title=Petersburgse vertellingen. Jaren in Rusland |location=Amsterdam |publisher=Querido |date=1999 |isbn=978-90-214-0285-7}}
- {{cite book |author= |title=De overtreder |location=Amsterdam |publisher=Querido |date=2007 |isbn=978-90-214-3353-0}}
- {{cite book |author= |title=De Nederlandse maagd |location=Amsterdam |publisher=Querido |date=2010 |isbn=978-90-214-3842-9}}
- {{cite book |title=The Dutch Maiden |location=London |publisher=World Editions |translator-last1=Doherty |translator-first1=David |date=2016 |isbn=978-94-6238-077-6}}
- {{cite book |author= |title=Roundhay, tuinscène |location=Amsterdam |publisher=Querido |date=2013 |isbn=978-90-214-4996-8}}
- {{cite book |author= |title=Kleine vogel, grote man |location=Maartensdijk |publisher=B for books |date=2013 |isbn=978-90-8516-283-4}}
- {{cite book |author= |title=Gezellige verhalen |location=Amsterdam |publisher=Querido |date=2015 |isbn=978-90-214-5887-8}}
- {{cite book |author= |title=Foon |location=Amsterdam |publisher=Querido |date=2018 |isbn=978-90-214-1200-9}}
- {{cite book |author= |title=De schoft |location=Amsterdam |publisher=Querido |date=2023 |isbn=978-90-214-7553-0}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.marentedemoor.com/}}
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Category:21st-century Dutch novelists
Category:Dutch women novelists
Category:Writers from The Hague
Category:Dutch women columnists
Category:21st-century Dutch women writers
Category:University of Amsterdam alumni
Category:21st-century Dutch women journalists
Category:20th-century Dutch women journalists