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Writer Marcel Möring (born 1957) published his first novel, Mendel, in 1990. His breakthrough came in 1994 with the award-winning Het Grote Verlangen (AKO-prijs), with 150,000 copies being sold.
The novel has been published in translation in many countries and was particularly successful in Scandinavia, Germany, Japan and the UK.
More literary awards followed. He received two Gouden Uilen for In Babylon (1997), a literary thriller about the atomic age, the Jewish history of Europe and the question of who and where we are without roots. In Bederf is de weg van alle vlees he combined four novellas, i.e. Modelvliegen, Nachtzwemmen, Een Vrouw and the titular story.
In 2007, he received the Bordewijkprijs for DIS. DIS tells the story of Jakob Noach, a Jewish middle-class businessman in Assen who has an entire town dancing to his tune but cannot get a grip on his own life. In the long night leading up to the town’s annual TT motorbike races, he wanders through the drinking and partying crowd and looks back on his life and the history of the town he shaped. DIS is the first part of a trilogy that includes the later novels Louteringsberg (2011) and Eden (2017). It was followed by Amen (2018) and Familiewandeling (2021). In the latter novel, Möring writes about his own history and his Jewish origins for the first time.
Möring's work has been published in more than 18 countries.