She has written five novels and won the 2009 Black Magic Woman Literature Prize for Titus and was awarded the 2024 Dutch biography prize for In wat voor een land leef ik eigenlijk?, a biography on Anil Ramdas.

[1] In 2004, she published her first novel, Het knipperleven ("The glare of life"), which was enthusiastically received by the press.

In 2006, it was followed by Wanneer wij samen zijn ("When we are together"), a novel based on the story of several generations of the Amatmoekrim family.

Amatmoekrim has also published short stories in De Groene Amsterdammer and Vrij Nederland.

[2] Her PhD-research in modern literature, studying the work and life of Anil Ramdas and his ideas on identity, multiculturalism, populism and the role of the black intellectual in western societies.