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Michael Bijnens

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Michael Bijnens

Michael Bijnens (born 1990) grew up as the son of an Antwerp prostitute. A language addict, he studied German and later graduated from theater school in Brussels before quickly making his name as a playwright. To research his last two plays he traveled to Lebanon and to Mexico, where he stayed for months in the drug violence-ridden border region with the United States. Cinderella is Bijnens’s debut novel. 

Articles by Michael Bijnens

From “Cinderella”
By Michael Bijnens
She needed the adrenaline to keep her upright.
Translated from Dutch by Brian Doyle