Els Moors

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Els Moors at a reading at the Poetry Festival Berlin 2016

Els Moors (born 1976 in Poperinge ) is a Belgian author who writes in Dutch. She is best known for her poetry .

life and work

Els Moors studied English and German at the University of Ghent and text and image at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie . In 2006 she published her first volume of poetry, Er hangt een hoge lucht boven ons ( Eng .: A high sky arches above us ), which was awarded the Herman de Coninckprijs . As a result, she published a novel in 2008 with the title Het sucht naar een eiland and in 2010 an anthology with prose, Vendungijd . Her second volume of poetry was published in 2013, it is called Liederen van een kapseizend paard . He was also nominated for the Herman de Coninckprijs in 2016. In 2016 her first volume of poetry was published in German by Brüterich Press under the title Songs from the horse over board . The book contains the texts of the two Flemish volumes, which were translated into German by Christian Filips .

Web links

Commons : Els Moors  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Moors, Els: Songs from the horse over board | Book of the week | Literature | SWR2 . In: swr.online . ( swr.de [accessed on January 22, 2018]).
  2. ^ Poets by the Sea: Flemish poet Els Moors from April 13th to 30th on Sylt. A cooperation with the guest country program of the Frankfurt Book Fair. Sylt Foundation, April 15, 2016, accessed June 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Els Moors. Literaturwerkstatt Berlin , accessed on June 18, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Martin Grzimek: Els Moors: Songs from the horse over board. SWR2 , March 31, 2016, accessed June 18, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Moors, Els
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian author
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Poperinge