She won the AKO Literatuurprijs (2011) and the European Union Prize for Literature (2014) for her novel De Nederlandse maagd (2010).

[1][2][3] She studied Slavic language and literature at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and graduated in 1999.

A collection of her columns in De Groene was published as Petersburgse vertellingen (Petersburgian tales) in 1999.

He second novel De Nederlandse maagd (The Dutch virgin) was published in 2010 and won the AKO Literatuurprijs in 2011 and the European Union Prize for Literature in 2014.

[7] Her fourth novel 'Phon' was published in 2019 in Dutch and in 2021 in German by Hanser Verlag.