Isabel Hoving

Isabel Hoving was born in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She began her career as a secondary school teacher, during which time she became very active in the Dutch women's movement.

She eventually gave up her job to study literary theory full-time, and spent some months in Senegal, West Africa for a research project.

Hoving's first book, The Dream Merchant, was published in the Netherlands as De gevleugelde kat. It won the 2003 Gouden Zoen award, the Netherlands' most prestigious children's book prize. Her book on Caribbean women migrant writing, In Praise of New Travelers, was published in 2001. She is co-editor of the Dutch five-volume series Cultuur en migratie, on the influence of migrants on Dutch culture.

Hoving is now an academic and lect

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