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Marcel Möring

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Born: September 04 1957

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Marcel Möring was born in 1957 in Enschede, an industrial town near the Dutch-German border, where he attended a Montessori primary school. In the late sixties his family moved north, to Assen, a small town moderately famous for its annual TT motor races. He finished secondary school and studied Dutch literature for two years, then went from one odd job to another. Since he had already decided to become a writer at the age of thirteen, he saw no point in further education. He wrote several plays in those years, producing and directing two of them, and moved to Rotterdam, the second biggest city in the Netherlands. Möring published his first novel, Mendels Erfenis, in 1990, to almost unanimous critical acclaim. His second novel, Het Grote Verlangen won the AKO Prize, the Dutch equivalent of the Booker Prize. Over 150,000 copies of The Great Longing have been sold in the Netherlands alone. Möring's third book was a novella: Bederf is de weg van alle vlees . Then came a 500 page novel: In Babylon. This book won two Golden Owls, a Flemish award for the best Dutch/ Flemish book of 1998. In Babylon was a major success in both the Netherlands and Germany and was published in the UK , France , the USA and a great number of other countries. His novel, DIS, was published in 2006 and quickly became the subject of a critical debate about contemporary literature. In 2007 DIS was awarded the Bordewijk Prize for the best Dutch novel of 2006.
DIS was published in Germany as Der Nächtige Ort, in Great Britain and the US spring 2010) as In A Dark Wood. A Hebrew translation is currently in the works. In 2011 Möring's German publisher Luchterhand boughts the rights to 'Louteringsberg', his latest book, shortly before the novel was published in The Netherlands.

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Marcel Möring

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Books from Marcel Möring

In Babylon

Het grote verlangen

Louteringsberg

Mendels erfenis

The Dream Room

Een vrouw

Bederf is de weg van alle vlees

De Kunst van Toonder: Een Persoonlijke Keuze

Thuis. Een bloemlezing over verbondenheid

Het begin van het einde

Bederf is de weg van alle vlees en andere novellen

De goddelijke komedie

East Bergholt

Alles wordt beter

Wie over vrede spreekt, heeft moed

Museum van Nagsael: 11 years, 132 exhibitions

Stervensuur

Amen

Eden

In a Dark Wood