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Marjet Maks

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Marjet Maks was born in Overijssel. She went to highschool in Coevorden.
Followed a six year course to become a garden and landscape architect. Three years at Huis te Lande in Rijswijk and three years at Melle in Gent, Belgium. With two partners she started the design studio Tuinatelier in Utrecht from 1984 until 2000.
Since 2000 she runs the guesthouse Viña y Rosales in a mountain village in the Alpujarras in Spain.
Marjet Maks writes four times a year a column about her life in a Spanish mountain village in Vruchtbare Aarde, a magazine about inspiration and human interest with spiritual incline.
Marjet writes reviews for https://kortverhaal.info/?p=1165

In 2009 she self published: De gouden engel

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De zucht van de Moor
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De laatste herder
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De zucht van de Moor

Mijn debuut De zucht van de Moor is nu een week of zes uit en gaat al een aardig eigen leven leiden, alsof de moeder haar kind naar een feestje laat gaan. Er zijn bekenden, die aardig en lief voor het kind zijn, maar er zijn natuurlijk ook vreemden die op- en aanmerkingen geven. Die laatste groep heb ik, als moeder, de schrijver, nog nauwelijks ontmoet. Vooralsnog lijkt iedereen aardig en positief Read more of this blog post »
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