Jessica Durlacher
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Jessica Durlacher (Template:IPA; born 6 September 1961) is a Dutch literary critic, columnist and novelist.
Her father is the sociologist and writer Gerhard Durlacher, who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. She is married to novelist Leon de Winter and they have two children, Moos and Moon (Solomonica).<ref name="nlwiki">nl:Jessica Durlacher [1]; accessed October 8, 2006</ref>
Jessica Durlacher writes book reviews and columns for several magazines, such as Vrij Nederland.
She made her debut as a novelist in 1997 with Het Geweten (The Conscience), following with De Dochter (The Daughter) in 2000. Both novels are about children of Holocaust survivors. Her third novel, Emoticon, was published in 2004. The story is set against the background of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Her novels have been translated into German, Swedish, Russian and Italian.<ref>Jessica Durlacher Template:Webarchive; accessed October 8, 2006</ref>
In the fall of 2005 she was a co-professor, together with Johan Snapper and Leon de Winter, at Berkeley of the course titled Anne Frank and After, focusing on Dutch Holocaust literature and film, and recent religious and political developments in the Netherlands.<ref>Dutch Studies – Courses (Google cache); accessed October 8, 2006</ref>
Bibliography
- Het geweten (1998)<ref name="nlwiki"/>
- De dochter (2000)
- Op scherp (2001)
- Nieuwbouw (2004)
- Emoticon (2004)
- Schrijvers! (2005)
References
External links
- Official website (in Dutch)
- 1961 births
- Dutch columnists
- Jewish Dutch writers
- Dutch literary critics
- Dutch women literary critics
- Dutch people of German-Jewish descent
- Dutch women writers
- Living people
- Dutch women columnists
- Writers from Amsterdam
- 21st-century Dutch women journalists
- 20th-century Dutch women journalists
- 21st-century Dutch journalists
- 20th-century Dutch journalists