Maartje Wortel (1982, NL) studied Image & Language at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. She has published short stories in literary magazines such as Passionate Magazine, De Brakke Hond and De Gids. Maartje Wortel made her debut in 2009 with a collection of stories called Dit is jouw huis (This is your house) at the publisher De Bezige Bij, and with this collection she won the Anton Wachterprijs, a price for the best prose debut. In 2011, her first novel was published: Half Mens (Half a human being). West has asked Maartje Wortel to write new stories, especially for Volkspaleis. Wortel’s autonomous stories habe been available on MP3-players during the manifestation.

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