Marcel Möring

(1957, Enschede) moved to Assen when he was 11, where he grew up and attended high school. At thirteen, he decided to become a writer. In order to do so he quit his education and took on several jobs to provide for himself. In 1990, his debut, Mendels erfenis (Mendels heritage) was published, which was awarded the Geertjan Lubberhuizen Prize for the best debut. Two years later, his second novel Het grote verlangen (The Great Desire) was awarded the Ako Literature Prize. In 1995, the short novella Bederf is de weg van alle vlees (Decay is the way of all flesh) and the collection Het derde testament (The third testament), a collection of Jewish texts of writers and scientists. In 1997 In Babylon was published, a great epic novel about a special family in history: as much a magical realist novel as it is a horror story.  Six years after his previous novel Moring came forcefully bacj with his new novel Eden. Eden is the final part of the trilogy that Moring began with Dis (2006) and Louteringsberg (2011). Marcel Moring is without any doubt one of the most ingenious authors of our time and also has the most imagination." -The Time Literary Supplement