Marcel Möring
Marcel Möring

Marcel Möring (b. 1957) is widely considered the leading Dutch author of the day. Publication of his first novel, Mendel’s erfenis (Mendel), was an instant success, winning the Geertjan Lubberhuizen Prize for Best Debut of 1990. His second novel, Het grote verlangen (The Great Longing), was a bestseller in 1992, and won the country’s most prestigious prize, the AKO. It was translated into many languages. Möring’s third book was the novella Bederf is de weg van alle vlees (Decay is the Way of All Flesh, 2008). In Babylon (1997) won two Golden Owl Prizes, an award for the best Dutch language book of 1998. His novel DIS (In a Dark Wood) was awarded the Bordewijk Prize for the best Dutch novel. Louteringsberg (Mountain of Purgation) was published in 2011. His new work Eden will be published in January 2017. Eden has been sold before publication to Luchterhand Verlag (Germany). Möring’s work has been widely translated all over the world.
Recent title – English material
Familiewandeling (A Family Walk), 2021
Amen, 2019
Eden, 2017
Press on Eden:
Though his novels bear unmistakeable, post-modern markings in style, be it a graphic novel segment inserted between (in Dis), or sentences fashioned into the form of a tree (in Eden), while reading you maintain this picture in your head of a writer trekking across the pages, an actual, massive burlap sack slung over his shoulder containing just about the entire cultural history of Europe. – De Groene Amsterdammer
Moral, eclectic, compelling novel with a historic focus reaching back to the Middle Ages. – Trouw
Eden is the most stimulating on the most abstract level […] Everything has a function in Marcel Möring’s new book. – NRC Handelsblad
Eden is a […] rich tale of identity and a search for a home. **** – AD Magazine
It is a book full of puzzles, but compelling from the first page to the last. **** – Leidsch Dagblad
Press on In a Dark Wood:
Demanding and magnificent. - The Times
Compelling [...] Möring negotiates the Stygian gloom with a lightness of touch and remarkable imaginative energy. His restless, inventive narrative continually redefines itself - as social satire, cosmic tragedy, soft porn, metaphysical speculation. - The Guardian
A beguiling novel. - METRO
An eminently readable novel... Breathtakingly erudite, unashamedly modernist, earthy, ghoulish and lush at the same time, In a Dark Wood captures the reader to take him on a mesmerising trip. - The Bookbag
Titles
- Familiewandeling (A Family Walk), 2021
- Amen (Amen), 2019
- Eden, 2017
- Louteringsberg (Mountain of Purgation), 2011
- Bederf is de weg van alle vlees (Decay is the Way of All Flesh), 2008
- DIS (In a Dark Wood), 2006
- In Babylon, 1997
- Het grote verlangen (The Great Longing), 1992
- Mendel, 1990