In Babylon

Marcel Möring

1997

Emmanuel Hollander worked at, and believed in progress, but progress was not a religious notion for him, as it was for his future wife. He was an engineer and knew that every machine began as a rickety prototype, held together with paper clips and string, but gradually improved, little by little. His mistake was in concluding that the world was no…

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Marcel Möring

b. 1957

A novelist, essayist, short story writer, and playwright, Marcel Möring is regarded as one of Holland’s foremost contemporary authors. He was born in Enschede, a town near the Dutch–German border, and a decade later moved to Assen. He studied Dutch literature for two years and wrote several plays. He then moved to Rotterdam, and in 1990 published his first novel, Mendels Erfenis (Mendel’s Inheritance). Möring earned the AKO Literature Prize (1992) and two Golden Owl awards (1998).

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