name: Renate Dorrestein
birth_date: 1954-01-25 00:00:00
death_date: 2018-05-04 00:00:00
genres: Literature & Fiction
avg_rating: 3.35
ratings_count: 15554
about: Renate Dorrestein (1954 - 2018) has been internationally praised for the force of her imagination, her sharp psychological insight, her suspenseful plots and her ironic sense of humour. Her books have been nominated for the AKO Literature Prize, the Libris Literature Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and translated into fifteen languages. Her international breakthrough came in 1998 with A Heart of Stone, published by Viking.