Her magical realism novels include The House at the End of Hope Street (2013), The Dress Shop of Dreams (2014), and The Sisters Grimm trilogy (2020 - 2023).
Menna van Praag is the author of six magical realism novels: Men, Money & Chocolate (translated into 26 languages), The House at the End of Hope Street....
Menna van Praag
English novelist and screenwriter
Menna van Praag is an English novelist and writing educator.
Her magical realism novels include The House at the End of Hope Street (2013), The Dress Shop of Dreams (2014), and The Sisters Grimm trilogy (2020 - 2023).
Biography
Menna van Praag was born in Cambridge and studied modern history at Balliol College, Oxford.[1][2] She worked as a waitress for a decade before becoming a writer, and was a script reader and editor for BBC Film and BBC Television.[1][2][3] She teaches at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education and in the Creative Writing program at Anglia Ruskin University.[4]
She has cited magical realism as her favorite genre and Alice Hoffman, Isabelle Allende, Laura Esquivel, Sarah Addison Allen, and Barbara O'Neal as favorite authors in that genre.[3] Her novella, a fable, Men, Money and Chocolate (2009)[5&