Persis Bekkering (1987) is a writer, engaging with a wide spectrum of artistic disciplines.
She is the author of two novels in Dutch, A Hero’s Life (2018, shortlisted for the ANV Debut Prize) and Excess (2021, shortlisted for the BNG Bank Prize for Literature). Her novella Last Utopia is published in English translation by the Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht.
As a writer, performer, conversation partner and dramaturge, she collaborates with artists such as Martin Groch, Dora García Ula Sickle and Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe.
She also teaches creative writing at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem (NL).
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