Maurits de Bruijn

Maurits de Bruijn (b. 1984) is queer, Jewish, and grew up in a Protestant family. He works as an essayist, visual artist, podcaster, journalist and editor for an arts magazine. He has written three novels to date. His memoir 'Ook mijn holocaust' (My Holocaust Too, 2020), in which he explores how his mother’s wartime past shaped his childhood and life, was received to great critical acclaim in the Netherlands and has been translated into German.