Rutger Kopland (1934-2012) was de schrijversnaam van de psychiater R.H. van den Hoofdakker. Van den Hoofdakker was hoogleraar aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Als onderzoeker en behandelaar hield hij zich persoonlijk vooral bezig met de betekenis van de slaap en de biologische klok voor het emotionele leven van zowel gezonde als psychisch gestoorde mensen. Daarbij werkte hij ook als psychotherapeut. Behalve artikelen en hoofdstukken in wetenschappelijke tijdschriften en leerboeken schreef hij ook essays over psychiatrie in de algemene maatschappelijke context. Een aantal van deze stukken werd opgenomen in De mens als speelgoed (1995) en in Twee ambachten (2003).
Als Rutger Kopland publiceerde Van den Hoofdakker veertien gedichtenbundels.
Marcellus Emants was a Dutch novelist who was one of the few examples of Dutch Naturalism. He is seen as a first step towards the renewing force of the Tachtigers towards modern Dutch literature, a movement which started around the 1880s. His most well-known work is 'A Posthumous Confession', published in 1894
Włodimierz Odojewski (Polen, 1930-2016) wrote numerous novels, stories, theater plays and poems. He was awarded many literary prizes. In 1971 he emigrated to Paris and subsequently to München, to return to Poland again in 1989.
Ronelda Kamfer is an Afrikaans-speaking South African poet.
She grew up with her grandparents, farm workers in Grabouw, in a region known for its orchards and vineyards, located a good sixty kilometers from Cape Town and its townships. She then returned to her parents, who, when she was 13, settled in Eersterivier, a suburb which had many social problems - poverty, violence, drugs, gang warfare. This experience profoundly marked her life and her writing.
She gained a bachelor's degree in 1999; she held various jobs: waitress, office worker, nurse, while writing and pursuing studies at the University of the Western Cape, where she obtained a Master of Letters (Afrikaans and Dutch ).
Kamfer first published in anthologies and magazines in South A
F. Springer (15 January 1932 – 7 November 2011) was the pseudonym of Carel Jan Schneider, a Dutch foreign service diplomat and writer.
Schneider was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. He spent World War II in a Japanese internment camp,[1] and afterward lived and worked in New Guinea, New York, Bangkok, Brussels, Dhaka, Luanda, East Berlin (he was the next-to-last Dutch ambassador there[1]), and Tehran all of which have served as locations for the novels and stories which he has published.
His laconic style is reminiscent of F. Scott Fitzgerald or Graham Greene,[1] and he often adopts an ironic perspective on his often tragic subject matter, such as in Teheran, een zwanezang, a love story set against the background of the Iranian Revolution.
