Isabel's Fans (6)

Isabel Hoving

Author profile

About this author

edit data

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 The Winged Cat. It won the 2003 Golden Kiss 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 lecturer...more

combine editions
Books by Isabel Hoving

Average rating: 3.84 · 344 ratings · 35 reviews · 6 distinct works

	The Dream Merchant by Isabel Hoving, Hester Velmans (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 340 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Das Geheimnis Des Schlangenreifs 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	De vulkaan van Wageningen (Het boek van het Vuur, #2) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Het verbond van de Bliksems (Het boek van het Vuur, #1) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	My rating:
	In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women's Writing 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Postcolonial Low Countries: Literature, Colonialism, and Multiculturalism by Elleke Boehmer (Editor), De Sarah Mul (Editor), Frances Gouda (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:

More books by Isabel Hoving…

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

Quotes by Isabel Hoving

“What's supposed to happen, at the end of a quest? Cheers and accolades, Josh knew; people throw their hats in the air, and you glow with pride as they lift you to their shoulders. What else? Medals, speeches and a great feast, and then a ballad about your exploits, and finally, as the fireworks go off overhead, a soft, clean, fresh bed.”
― Isabel Hoving, The Dream Merchant

tags: journey , quest , travel

2 people liked it

“That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as much as I have to say for it.”
― Isabel Hoving, The Dream Merchant

tags: business , commerce , cross-cultural , international , trade

1 person liked it

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
A-Z Challenge: Anna's A-Z Challange of 2010 Both Title and Author	1	29	Feb 24, 2010 01:13am
Queereaders: Spring Reading Challenge - Official Record of Points	6	34	Jun 21, 2010 07:25am
Challenge: 50 Books: Anna's Books of 2010	57	116	Sep 08, 2010 01:48pm

More…

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Isabel to Goodreads.