Marente de Moor


Marente de Moor is a Dutch novelist and columnist. She published three novels and two collections of columns. She won the AKO Literatuurprijs and the European Union Prize for Literature for her novel De Nederlandse maagd.

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 and visual artist Heppe de Moor. 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 in 1999. Since 2009, she is a columnist for Vrij Nederland. A collection of her columns in VN was published as Kleine vogel, grote man in 2013.
Her fiction debut was the novel De overtreder in 2007. He second novel De Nederlandse maagd was published in 2010 and won the AKO Literatuurprijs in 2011 and the European Union Prize for Literature in 2014. Her third novel Roundhay, tuinscène was published in 2013.

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