Work
De Coster made her debut in 2000, with her first book, called Under Each Other, a collection of dark tales about the disintegration of an unusual family. Under Each Other appeared in the "Nieuw Wereldtijdschrift (NWT)".
In 2002, at the age of 26, Saskia de Coster published her debut novel, Vrije Val (Free Fall). Besides novels, de Coster also writes columns (among other things for the Flemish newspaper De Morgen). She is on the editorial staff of Dietsche Warande en Belfort, a literary magazine. In late 2009, she replaced Aaf Brandt Corstius as a daily columnist for nrc.next newspaper.
De Coster is also a visual artist. She works with video art, writes for theatre and writes lyrics for musicians such as Daan Stuyven and Dez Mona. Saskia de Coster regularly collaborates with visual artists such as video artist Nicolas Rombouts and artist Arne Quinze. Arne Quinze invited the author Saskia De Coster to capture the alienation which his monumental work Rock Strangers (Oostende) exude as well as the intimacy of My Secret Garden (Kunsthal Rotterdam) in contemporary stories and distinctive film footage.
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