Margriet de Moor

Margriet de Moor at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2016

Margriet de Moor at the Leipzig Book Fair 2011

Margriet de Moor (* 21st November 1941 in Noordwijk as Margaretha Maria Antonetta Neefjes ) is a Dutch writer .

Life

Margriet de Moor is one of ten children of a teacher couple. Her mother-in-law was the writer Anna Margaritha Annie de Moor-Ringnalda. She first studied piano and singing at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague . In her second degree, she studied art history and archeology in Amsterdam , which she financed with piano lessons.

In 1984 she and her husband opened a salon for artists in 's-Graveland near Hilversum . For the salon she made a series of film and video portraits of the exhibiting artists. After the subsidies for the film projects were suspended, she started writing. Her debut work was the short story volume back view , published in 1988 , which received good reviews and was awarded the Golden Dog-Ear as the best-selling literary debut . For her first novel First gray then white then blue (1991) she received the AKO Literatuurprijs . This novel became a book for the city of Cologne and the surrounding area in 2016 .

Margriet de Moor was married to the sculptor Heppe de Moor (1938–1992), and the marriage resulted in two daughters. De Moor is fluent in German. Her daughter Marente de Moor (* 1972) is a Slavist , newspaper columnist and made her debut in 2010 with a novel.

The writer now lives and works in Amsterdam.

Works (selection)

• First gray, then white, then blue. Novel. Hanser , Munich 1991; dtv , Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-12073-8 .
• Back view. Stories. dtv, 1993, ISBN 3-423-12101-7 .
• The virtuoso. Novel. Hanser 1993/1994; dtv, 1997, ISBN 3-446-17869-4 .
• Double portrait. Novellas. dtv, 1994, ISBN 3-423-08433-2 .
• So I am dreaming. Stories. Hanser, 1996; dtv, 1999, ISBN 3-423-12576-4 .
• Duke of Egypt. Novel. Hanser, 1997; dtv, 1999, ISBN 3-423-12716-3 .
• The appointment. Novel. Hanser 2000; dtv 2002, ISBN 3-446-19881-4 .
• Kreutzer Sonata. Novel. Hanser, 2002, ISBN 3-446-20221-8 .
• Storm surge. Novel. Hanser, 2006, ISBN 3-446-20713-9 .
• The juggler. Novel. Hanser, 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23000-2 .
• The painter and the girl . Novel. Hanser, 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23638-7 .
• Melody d'amour , novel. From the Dutch by Helga van Beuningen . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24478-8 .
• Sleepless Night , German by Helga van Beuningen. Hanser, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25280-6 .
  • Sleepless night. Audio book. Audiobook Hamburg , Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-95713-061-7 .
• Of birds and people , novel. German by Helga van Beuningen. Hanser, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-25819-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Margriet de Moor in the catalog of the German National Library
• Margriet de Moor's website
• Margriet de Moor is Thea Dorn's guest on the SWR program "worth reading" on March 27, 2014
• WDR 3 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) Mosaic - Talk on Saturday June 16, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Dutch, accessed January 5, 2014. 
2. ↑ Author profile de Moor at Hanser Verlag ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Love dance with music , review by Sigrid Löffler in Deutschlandradio Kultur on March 12, 2014.