Marja Brouwers

(Bergen op Zoom, 1948) is a Dutch prose writer. In 1984 she made her debut with Havinck, a novel about the lack of depth in relationships. The novel was favourably received. Her approach to prose is simple and realistic, describing reality in a businesslike and ironic style. This also applies to her novel De Feniks. Een familiekroniek (The phoenix. A family chronicle) (1985), however differing from Havinck, this story of three generations is not told in chronological order. In 1989 her novel De Lichtjager (The Lighthunter) was published. Her novels are about the inability to understand the nearest and dearest to us. In her most recent novel Casino (2004) Marja Brouwers illustrates the delusions of the consumer society of the last decennium, in which economic and sexual standards keep on shifting.