Naima El Bezaz
Encyclopedia
Naima El Bezaz is a Moroccan-Dutch
writer, who also gives lectures and writes stories, essays and columns.
Her family immigrated to The Netherlands when she was four years old. After finishing high school she went to college, but quit to start a career in writing. She met author Yvonne Kroonenberg at a lecture who got her into contact with publisher "Contact", resulting in her first book, "The Way North". This title appeared in 1996 and for this book she received the "Jenny Smelik-IBBY-prijs", an award for authors of children's or youth literature focusing on miniority children in the Netherlands. The novel became very popular among Dutch youths. In 2002 her second novel The Devil's Lover appeared and the story bundle became an instant bestseller. In Jack Spijkerman's Kopspijkers
she read an explicit passage of her book, angering Muslims and Christians. In September 2006 her third and most controversial book appears, The Expelled One is full of explicit content and criticism of religious dogmatism. Uitgeverij Contact calls it "The Moroccan-Dutch Turks Fruit" (referring to the famous taboo breaking Jan Wolkers
novel)
Moroccan-Dutch
The terms Moroccan-Dutch or Dutch-Moroccans refer to immigrants from Morocco to the Netherlands and their descendants. They are one of the larger allochtoon groups, making up 10.4% of the country's total population of foreign background....
writer, who also gives lectures and writes stories, essays and columns.
Her family immigrated to The Netherlands when she was four years old. After finishing high school she went to college, but quit to start a career in writing. She met author Yvonne Kroonenberg at a lecture who got her into contact with publisher "Contact", resulting in her first book, "The Way North". This title appeared in 1996 and for this book she received the "Jenny Smelik-IBBY-prijs", an award for authors of children's or youth literature focusing on miniority children in the Netherlands. The novel became very popular among Dutch youths. In 2002 her second novel The Devil's Lover appeared and the story bundle became an instant bestseller. In Jack Spijkerman's Kopspijkers
Kopspijkers
Kopspijkers was a talk show that has been running on the Dutch public television from 1996 to 2005. A recipient, in 2003, of the annual Zilveren Nipkow best-show award from Dutch television critics, the programme was produced by the left-of-centre public broadcaster VARA...
she read an explicit passage of her book, angering Muslims and Christians. In September 2006 her third and most controversial book appears, The Expelled One is full of explicit content and criticism of religious dogmatism. Uitgeverij Contact calls it "The Moroccan-Dutch Turks Fruit" (referring to the famous taboo breaking Jan Wolkers
Jan Wolkers
Jan Hendrik Wolkers was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter.Wolkers is considered one of the "Great Four" writers of post-World War II Dutch literature, along with Willem Frederik Hermans, Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve...
novel)
Works
- 1995 De weg naar het noorden (The Way North)
- 1999 Minnares van de duivel (The Devil's Lover)
- 2006 De verstotene (The Expelled One)
- 2008 Het gelukssyndroom (The Happiness Syndrome)
- 2010 Vinexvrouwen (New Suburben Women)