Kader Abdolah
Kader Abdolah is the penname of Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Farahani, an Iranian writer who also writes in Dutch. Abdolah has lived in the Netherlands since 1988.
He studied physics at the Arak College of Science and fled the country as a political refugee in 1988. Today he lives in Delft (The Netherlands), writing under a pseudonym made up of the names of two murdered friends. Het huis van de moskee (The House of the Mosque), catapulted Abdolah into the Dutch bestseller lists.
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Arnon Grunberg
Arnon Yasha Yves (Arnon) Grunberg is a Dutch writer. Some of his books were written using the heteronym Marek van der Jagt.
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In 1989 Grunberg made his acting debut in Maria's Cunt (de Kut van Maria); a short film by Dutch enfant terrible filmmaker Cyrus Frisch.
Grunberg made his literary debut in 1994 with the novel Blauwe maandagen (Blue Mondays), which won the Dutch prize for the best debut novel that year. In 2000, under the heteronym Marek van der Jagt, he won the best debut prize again for his novel De geschiedenis van mijn kaalheid (The History of My Baldness).
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Björn Larsson
Björn Larsson född 1953 i Jönköping, är en svensk författare och professor i franska vid Lunds universitet.
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Hassan Blasim
Hassan Blasim (born 1973) is an Iraqi-born film director and writer who lives in Finland. He writes in Arabic.He is co-editor of the Arabic literary website http://www.iraqstory.com/
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Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (b. 1956) is a philosopher and professor at Cornell University.
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Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi, Ph.D. (Persian: آذر نفیسی) (born December 1955) is an Iranian professor and writer who currently resides in the United States.
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Marcello Valente
Marcello Valente (1979) è Professore di Storia greca presso l'Università di Torino.
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Ap Dijksterhuis
Albert Jan (Ap) Dijksterhuis (Zutphen, 12 november 1968) is schrijver, spreker en psycholoog. Hij is gespecialiseerd in het onbewuste, in inspiratie, en in geluk. Hij heeft verschillende succesvolle bedrijven opgericht en woont samen met zijn vriendin in Nijmegen. Ook heeft hij een zoon.
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Hans Erich Nossack
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Niviaq Korneliussen
Niviaq Korneliussen was born in 1990 in Nuuk and grew up in Nanortalik, a small town in Southern Greenland. She participated in 2012 in the short story competition Allatta! (let us write!) for young unpublished authors in Greenland, where she was appointed as one of ten winners. Her short story "San Francisco" was published the following year in the short story collection Young in Greenland – Young in the World (trans. title). This led to invitations to several Nordic literary events – among these was an invitation to lead one of the workshops in the newly started festival for Nordic literature, txt.ville 2014, in Copenhagen. All the while she was still active in Greenland where she co-arranged Poetry Slams as well as literary debates in Nu
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Mahbod Seraji
ROOFTOPS OF TEHRAN is a richly rendered first novel about courage, sacrifice, and the bonds of friendship and love. In clear, vivid details, Mahbod Seraji opens the door to the fascinating world of Iran and provides a revealing glimpse into the life and customs of a country on the verge of a revolution.
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"...charmingly romantic. Seraji captures the thoughts and emotions of a young boy and creates a moving portrait of the history and customs of the Persians and life in Iran."
--Publishers Weekly, March 2009
"Seraji’s wonderful coming-of-age story is at times funny and sweet as well as thought-provoking and heart-wrenching."
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Matthieu Aikins
Matthieu Aikins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who has reported from Afghanistan and the Middle East since 2008. He is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and a Puffin Fellow at Type Media Center. His first book, The Naked Don’t Fear the Water, about an undercover journey to Europe with Afghan refugees, was published by Harper and Fitzcarraldo Editions in February, and has been translated into six languages.
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Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi (Persian: شیرین عبادی - Širin Ebâdi; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's Rights Support Association in Iran. On October 10, 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's, children's, and refugee rights. She was the first ever Iranian to have received the prize.Ebadi was born in Hamadan, Iran. Her father, Mohammad Ali Ebadi, was the city's chief notary public and professor of commercial law. The family moved to Tehran in 1948.
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Adam Armstrong
Jeff Gulvin, writing under the pseudonym Adam Armstrong, is the author of nine novels and is currently producing a new series set in the American West. His previous titles include three books starring maverick detective Aden Vanner and another three featuring FBI agent Harrison, as well as two novels originally published under the pseudonym Adam Armstrong, his great-grandfather’s name. He received acclaim for ghostwriting Long Way Down, the prize-winning account of a motorcycle trip from Scotland to the southern tip of Africa by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. The breadth of Gulvin’s fiction is vast, and his style has been described as commercial with just the right amount of literary polish. His stories range from hard-boiled crime to b
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Pim van Lommel
Pim van Lommel, M.D., was born in 1943, graduated in 1971 from the University of Utrecht, and finished his specialization in cardiology in 1976. He worked from 1977–2003 as a cardiologist in Hospital Rijnstate, an 800-bed Teaching Hospital in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and is now doing full-time research on the mind-brain relation.
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He published several articles on cardiology, but since he started his research on near-death experiences (NDE) in survivors of cardiac arrest in 1986, he is the author of more than 20 articles (most of them in Dutch), one book, and several chapters about NDE. He is married, has two children and five grandchildren.
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Rodaan Al Galidi
Al Galidi (eigenlijk Rodhan Al Khalidi) is een schrijver van Irakese afkomst. Hij is geboren in 1971, maar zijn precieze geboortedatum is onbekend, omdat zulke gegevens niet geregistreerd worden en verjaardagen niet gevierd worden in zijn streek van herkomst.
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Al Galidi studeerde in Irak af als bouwkundig ingenieur. Na zijn studie vluchtte hij uit Irak om de dienstplicht te ontwijken; zes jaar later, in 1998, kwam hij in Nederland terecht, waar hij asiel aanvroeg. Het asiel werd hem geweigerd en hij is uitgeprocedeerd. Lessen Nederlands mocht hij bijgevolg niet bijwonen. Daarom leerde Al Galidi zich de Nederlandse taal en begon te schrijven. In Vlaanderen wordt hij als schrijver erkend en ontvangt hij een werkbeurs. In 2007 kon Al Galidi geni -
Tommy Wieringa
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Åsne Seierstad
Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones – most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.
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She has received numerous awards for her journalism and has reported from such war-torn regions as Chechnya, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
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Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Thomas Olde Heuvelt (1983) is the international bestselling author of HEX. The much-praised novel was published in over twenty-five countries around the world and is currently in development for TV by Gary Dauberman. Olde Heuvelt, whose last name in Dutch dialect means “Old Hill,” was the first ever translated author to win a Hugo Award for his short story "The Day the World Turned Upside Down".
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His new novel ECHO will be out with Nightfire Books in the US and Hodder & Stoughton on February 8, 2022. International publication of his novel ORACLE, which topped all the bestseller charts in The Netherlands in March '21, will follow soon thereafter.
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Tim Krabbé
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Anita Amirrezvani
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Jan Wolkers
Jan Hendrik Wolkers was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter.
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Wolkers is considered one of the "Great Four" writers of post-World War II Dutch literature, along with Willem Frederik Hermans, Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve (the latter authors are also known as the "Great Three"). He became noted in the 1960s mainly for his strikingly direct descriptions of sex.
His 1969 novel Turks Fruit was translated into ten different languages and published in English as Turkish Delight. It was also made into a highly successful movie, the Paul Verhoeven-directed Turks Fruit (1972) which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and in 1999 won the award for Best Dutch Film of the Century.
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Herman Koch
Herman Koch (1953) is known as a television producer and a writer. The book 'Het diner', published in 2009, was his breakthrough in the Netherlands. It was published in 17 countries. It was partly based on a true story involving a homeless woman named, María del Rosario Endrinal Petit, in Barcelona (Spain), in December 2005.
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Nadeem Aslam
Aslam was born in Pakistan in 1966 and moved to Britain at age 14. His family left Pakistan to escape President Zia's regime.
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His novel Maps for Lost Lovers, winner of the Kuriyama Prize, took him more than a decade to complete. Aslam has stated that the first chapter alone took five years to complete, and that the following story in the book took seven months to complete before rejecting it. At the end, he kept only one sentence of the seventy pages written.
Aslam's latest novel, The Wasted Vigil, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in September, 2008. It is set in Afghanistan. He traveled to Afghanistan during the writing of the book; but had never visited the country before writing the first draft. On 11th February 2011, it was short-listed -
Marie Arana
She was born in Peru, moved to the United States at the age of 9, did her B.A. in Russian at Northwestern University, her M.A. in linguistics at Hong Kong University, a certificate of scholarship at Yale University in China, and began her career in book publishing, where she was vice president and senior editor at Harcourt Brace and Simon & Schuster. For more than a decade she was the editor in chief of "Book World", the book review section of The Washington Post. Currently, she is a Writer at Large for The Washington Post. She is married to Jonathan Yardley, the Post's chief book critic, and has two children, Lalo Walsh and Adam Ward.
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Lars Mæhle
Lars Mæhle (født 1971 på Sunndalsøra) er en norsk forfatter og barnebokforfatter. Han har hovedfagseksamen i litteratur og arbeider som forlagsredaktør. Han debuterte med boka Keeperen til Tunisia i 2002.
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Nilgün Yerli
Turkish-Dutch actress, author and theatre performer Nilgün Yerli was born in Turkey. She came to the Netherlands at the age of ten and originally lived in Heerenveen but later moved to Amsterdam.
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Tessa de Loo
Tessa de Loo is de pen name of Johanna Martina (Tineke) Duyvené de Wit.
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Harry Mulisch
Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch along with W.F. Hermans and Gerard Reve, is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch postwar literature. He has written novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections.
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Mulisch was born in Haarlem and lived in Amsterdam since 1958, following the death of his father in 1957. Mulisch's father was from Austria-Hungary and emigrated to the Netherlands after the First World War. During the German occupation in World War II he worked for a German bank, which also dealt with confiscated Jewish assets. His mother, Alice Schwarz, was Jewish. Mulisch and his mother escaped transportation to a concentration camp thanks to Mulisch's father's collaboration with the Nazis. Due to the curious nature of his parents' -
Jan Wolkers
Jan Hendrik Wolkers was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter.
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Wolkers is considered one of the "Great Four" writers of post-World War II Dutch literature, along with Willem Frederik Hermans, Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve (the latter authors are also known as the "Great Three"). He became noted in the 1960s mainly for his strikingly direct descriptions of sex.
His 1969 novel Turks Fruit was translated into ten different languages and published in English as Turkish Delight. It was also made into a highly successful movie, the Paul Verhoeven-directed Turks Fruit (1972) which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and in 1999 won the award for Best Dutch Film of the Century.
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Tim Krabbé
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Joost Zwagerman
Joost Zwagerman was a popular Dutch writer.
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Joost Zwagerman debuteerde in 1986 met de roman De houdgreep, die door Carel Peeters in Vrij Nederland werd bestempeld als 'het meestbelovende debuut sinds jaren'. Zijn doorbraak naar een breed publiek kwam met de roman Gimmick! (1989), die in 1996 voor het theater bewerkt werd door Theatergroep De Kwekerij. Het boek geeft een beeld van de trendy uitgaanscultuur en kunstenaarswereld van Amsterdam, waar hij in die tijd veel in verkeerde. In 1991 verscheen Vals licht, dat werd genomineerd voor de AKO Literatuurprijs en in 1993 werd verfilmd door Theo van Gogh. Ook De buitenvrouw (1994), over een liefde in multiculturele tijden, bereikte de longlist van de AKO Prijs. Nadien volgden de romans Chaos en -
Annejet van der Zijl
Annejet van der Zijl is a Dutch writer. Born in 1962, she studied mass communication at the UVA in Amsterdam and did a MA International Journalism at City University in London. She worked in magazine journalism until 2000, meanwhile publishing her first book Jagtlust, about a ramshackle villa that in the sixties was a meeting place for many artists and poets. Annejet van der Zijl lives in Amsterdam with her husband, a journalist.
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Tommy Wieringa
Tommy Wieringa (born 20 May 1967 in Goor, Overijssel) is a Dutch writer. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2006 for his novel Joe Speedboat.
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Herman Koch
Herman Koch (1953) is known as a television producer and a writer. The book 'Het diner', published in 2009, was his breakthrough in the Netherlands. It was published in 17 countries. It was partly based on a true story involving a homeless woman named, María del Rosario Endrinal Petit, in Barcelona (Spain), in December 2005.
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Anjet Daanje
Anjet Daanje (1965) is schrijfster van romans en verhalen, en voorheen ook filmscenario's. Haar negende roman "Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris" stond wekenlang in bestsellerlijsten, en won de Libris Literatuurprijs én de Boekenbonliteratuurprijs (voorheen AKO-literatuuprijs), en is daarmee de enige roman die ooit beide grote prijzen kreeg toegekend. Haar achtste roman "De herinnerde soldaat" won de F. Bordewijkprijs 2020. Voor haar gehele oeuvre won ze de Constantijn Huygensprijs 2023.
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Esther Gerritsen
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Her novels Superduif (Superdove, 2010), Dorst (Craving, 2012), Roxy (2014) and De Trooster (The Comforter, 2018) were all shortlisted for the Libris Literature Prize. In 2005 she was awarded the BNG prize for her second novel Normale dagen (Ordinary Days, 2005) and in 2014 she was awarded the Frans Kellendonk prize for her body of work. Gerritsen writes a popular weekly column in the VPRO TV guide and she -
Suzanna Jansen
Suzanna Jansen is geboren en getogen in Amsterdam. Na de middelbare school begint ze aan een balletopleiding maar stapt over op de studie Communicatie aan de HEAO. Na enige jaren bij een marketingbedrijf is ze in de jaren negentig betrokken bij de oprichting van Independent Media, het uitgeefconcern van Derk Sauer en Annemarie van Gaal in Moskou, waarvoor ze ook naar Rusland verhuist.
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In Moskou kiest ze voor journalistiek, als researcher voor documentaires van de VPRO en VRT, later als correspondent voor het Belgische dagblad De Morgen en freelance voor onder andere NRC Handelsblad, HP/deTijd en Opzij.
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Nino Haratischwili
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Haratischwili was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she attended a German-language school. To escape the political and social chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, she moved to Germany for two years in the early 1990s with her mother, where she attended the seventh and the eighth grade of school. Her family returned to Georgia afterwards. Haratischwili later moved to Germany again in order to attend drama school in Hamburg. She became a German citizen in 2012.
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Gerwin van der Werf
Gerwin van der Werf (De Meern, 13 juni 1969) is schrijver, columnist/publicist bij Dagblad Trouw en muziekdocent. Hij publiceerde vier romans bij uitgeverij Atlas Contact: Gewapende Man (2010), Wild (2011, longlist Libris Literatuurprijs), Luchtvissers (2013) en Een Onbarmhartig Pad (2018). Ook verschenen er van hem twee bundels met columns en verhalen over het onderwijs: Schooldagen (2014) en Stampen en Zingen (2018)
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Matthieu Aikins
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Anya Niewierra
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Murat Isik
Murat Isik is een Nederlandse schrijver en jurist van Zaza-Turkse afkomst. Hij studeerde rechtsgeleerdheid aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en San Francisco State University.
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Sander Schimmelpenninck
Sander Schimmelpenninck (1984) is journalist, columnist bij de Volkskrant en presentator van de Zelfspodcast. In de tv-serie Sander en de kloof stelde hij kansenongelijkheid aan de kaak, in zijn boek Sander en de brug (ruim 27.000 verkocht) deed hij voorstellen om daar iets aan te doen.
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Lex Paleaux
Lex Paleaux is schrijver, columnist en scenarist. Eerder verschenen van zijn hand onder meer de veelgeprezen romans Winterwater en Als de dood zucht, houd ik mijn adem in. Van Winterwater werd een succesvol theaterstuk gemaakt en het werd vertaald in het Fries.
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Lale Gül
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Safae el Khannoussi
Safae el Khannoussi (1994) is schrijver en promovendus aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Oroppa werd bekroond met de Boon en de Libris Literatuur Prijs.
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Extinction Rebellion
Extinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a UK-founded global environmental movement, with the stated aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.
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Amanda Block
Originally from Devon, Amanda moved to Edinburgh in 2007, where she attained a master's degree in creative writing. Since then, she's divided her time between ghostwriting, editing and tutoring.
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Amanda's writing is often inspired by myths and fairy tales, which she uses as starting points to tell new stories. Her work has been shortlisted in contests such as the Bridport Prize and the Mslexia Short Story Competition. The Lost Storyteller is her first novel. -
H.M. van den Brink
Hans Maarten van den Brink (1956) is a Dutch writer and journalist who has won many literary awards with his novel Over het water (translated as On the water).
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Ana van Es
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Wouter Linmans
Wouter Linmans (1989) is historicus. Hij is geïnteresseerd in culturele beeldvorming, en de geschiedenis van gewelddadige gebeurtenissen in de negentiende en twintigste eeuw. In 2021 verscheen De oorlog van morgen, over oorlogsverwachtingen in Nederland tussen 1918 en 1940.
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Joseph Heath
Joseph Heath (born 1967) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. He also teaches at the School of Public Policy and Governance. He received his bachelor of arts from McGill University, where his teachers included Charles Taylor, and his master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees are from Northwestern University, where he studied under Thomas A. McCarthy and Jürgen Habermas. He has published both academic and popular writings, including the bestselling The Rebel Sell. His philosophical work includes papers and books in political philosophy, business ethics, rational choice theory, action theory, and critical theory.
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Joost Zwagerman
Joost Zwagerman was a popular Dutch writer.
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Joost Zwagerman debuteerde in 1986 met de roman De houdgreep, die door Carel Peeters in Vrij Nederland werd bestempeld als 'het meestbelovende debuut sinds jaren'. Zijn doorbraak naar een breed publiek kwam met de roman Gimmick! (1989), die in 1996 voor het theater bewerkt werd door Theatergroep De Kwekerij. Het boek geeft een beeld van de trendy uitgaanscultuur en kunstenaarswereld van Amsterdam, waar hij in die tijd veel in verkeerde. In 1991 verscheen Vals licht, dat werd genomineerd voor de AKO Literatuurprijs en in 1993 werd verfilmd door Theo van Gogh. Ook De buitenvrouw (1994), over een liefde in multiculturele tijden, bereikte de longlist van de AKO Prijs. Nadien volgden de romans Chaos en -
Marnix Peeters
Na een carrière bij de radio (Studio Brussel), in de rockjournalistiek (Humo, Oor) en als interviewer en reportagemaker (Het Laatste Nieuws, De Morgen) trok Marnix Peeters (°1965) zich in 2010 terug op een berg in de zuidelijke Oostkantons, waar hij aan het schrijven ging.
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De eerste resultaten zagen in 2012 het daglicht: onder auspiciën van Robbert Ammerlaan verscheen toen bij De Bezige Bij zijn debuutroman, De dag dat we Andy zijn arm afzaagden. Het boek verscheen ook in het Italiaans (Il giorno che segammo il braccio a Andy).
Een jaar later volgde Natte dozen — een gemene, ophefmakende roman, die in de iTunes-store werd gecensureerd (N***e dozen) en die wekenlang in de top 10 stond.
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Vasco Pratolini
Vasco Pratolini (October 19, 1913 - January 12, 1991) was one of the most noted Italian writers of the twentieth century.
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Born in Florence, Pratolini worked at various jobs before entering the literary world thanks to his acquaintance with Elio Vittorini. In 1938 he founded, together with Alfonso Gatto, the magazine Campo di Marte. His work is based on firm political principles and much of it is rooted in the ordinary life and sentiments of ordinary, modest working-class people in Florence.
During World War II he fought with the Italian partisans against the German occupation. After the war he also worked in the cinema, collaborating as screenwriter to films such as Luchino Visconti's Rocco e i suoi fratelli, Roberto Rossellini's Paisà and Na -
Hermine Heijermans
Hermine Marie Leendert Heijermans (1902-1983) was a Dutch stage actress, author and politician. She was the daughter of playwright Herman Heijermans and, under the name Minny Heijermans, performed in her father's company, the Tooneelvereeniging, from 1921 to 1938. After the Second World War she remained active as a comedian. Heijermans is best remembered as an author: she wrote several novels and a biography about her father. In 1976 she edited the ‘Boekenweekgeschenk’ titled “Snikken en smartlapjes”. In the 1960s and ’70s she was a columnist for Sekstant, the magazine of the NVSH. Heijermans was also member of the Amsterdam city council on behalf of the CPN.
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Augusta de Wit
Anna Augusta Henriette de Wit was een Nederlands romanschrijfster. Haar bekendste werk is Orpheus in de dessa (1903).
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Hans Schnitzler
Hans C. Schnitzler is een Nederlandse filosoof, schrijver en columnist. In zijn werk staat de invloed van de digitalisering op de alledaagse leefwereld centraal. Andere thema’s waarmee hij zich bezighoudt zijn ethiek, onderwijs en burgerschap. Schnitzler studeerde filosofie aan de Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
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Zijn essays en columns verschenen onder meer in de Volkskrant, NRC, De Standaard, De Groene Amsterdammer en bij Follow the Money. In 2021 stond hij met Wij nihilisten op de shortlist voor de Socratesbeker. -
Judit Neurink
Judit Neurink (pen name: Judit Antonia, 1957) reported on the rise and fall of terror group ISIS, while working as a correspondent in Iraq for Dutch and international media (2008-2019). She wrote ‘The war on ISIS’ and ‘Slaves wives and brides’, the latter about women caught up inside the Caliphate. Her book ‘Violence Recycled’ (2021) is a personal report of a decade in Iraq while it moved from war to peace and back again.
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She wrote ten books, almost all about Iraq. Her latest two novels are about life inside the Caliphate in Iraq and Syria (The Good Terrorist), and about the search for a kidnapped child in war-time Iraq (A Devil's Child).