Jessica Durlacher

Jessica Durlacher (2017)

Jessica Durlacher (born September 6, 1961 in Amsterdam , Netherlands ) is a Dutch writer , literary critic and translator .

Life

Jessica Durlacher is the daughter of the sociologist and writer Gerhard Durlacher , the only one of his family to survive Auschwitz . His reports and stories about the Nazi era made him an important contemporary witness in the Netherlands. Jessica Durlacher continues this topic and writes in her novels about the lives of families in which the parents survived the Holocaust and how this experience traumatizes and shapes them and their children.

Durlacher now lives and works in Bloemendaal near Amsterdam and in California and is married to the Dutch writer Leon de Winter . The two have two children together.

Works

Novels

• 1997: Het Geweten (German Conscience , Diogenes, 1997)
• 2000: De D Jungs (Eng. The Daughter , Diogenes, 2001)
• 2004: Emoticon (German Emoticon , Diogenes, 2006)
• 2004: Nieuwbouw (essays)
• 2009: Schrijvers! (German writer!, Diogenes, 2009)
• 2011: De Held (Eng. The Son , Diogenes 2012)

Translations

• Art Spiegelman : Mouse I + II (into Dutch)

Awards

• 1998: Debutant Prize from the Dutch perspectief Foundation for Conscience
• 1999: Golden Dog-Ear for Conscience , the best-selling literary debut in Holland
• 2002: Author of the year 2001 for the readers of the Austrian magazine Buchkultur for her novel The Daughter

Web links

• Literature by and about Jessica Durlacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Jessica Durlacher at perlentaucher.de