After following a career as a classical singer, Margriet de Moor (1941, Noordwijk) decided to pursue a writing career - a decision which has proved a particularly happy one. Not only was she immediately recognised as a major talent, becoming one of the most popular writers in Dutch, but she has also become a literary presence abroad since the international success of her novels First Grey, Then White, Then Blue and The Virtuoso. She has since published successful novels such as The Duke of Egypt and Kreutzer Sonata. Her sensitive, perceptive, delicate writing and her careful construction carry the reader away slowly but surely and this is more true than ever in her new novel Drowned. In Drowned, the shock that changes many human lives forever is meteorological: a disastrous flood that the writer bases with documentary precision on the floods that hit the Dutch province of Zeeland in 1953. The latter title came out in China this year, published by Shanghai Literature and Arts Publishing House.

玛格丽特·德默尔出生于1941年，曾是一位古典歌唱家，后决定投身于写作事业。玛格丽特的文学天赋很快得到了广泛的认可。她的作品不仅畅销荷兰，她甚至凭借小说《灰色到白色到蓝色》和《行家》成功在国际文学版图上抢占了一席之地。之后，她又出版了多部引起良好反响的作品如《埃及公爵》以及《克莱采奏鸣曲》。玛格丽特的作品文笔细腻敏感，视角通透，结构精密，有一种慢慢将读者带入小说世界并为之沉醉的力量。她的最新作品《Drowned》以1953年荷兰泽兰德地区遭洪水侵袭的真实事件为蓝本，描述了一场洪水之灾对人们生活的彻底改变。上海文艺出版社将在今年出版此书的中译本。