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Martin Michael Driessen

Martin Michael Driessen is a Dutch opera and theater director, translator, and writer.

He made his debut in 1999 with the novel Gars, followed by Vader van God (Father of God, 2012) and Een ware held (A True Hero, 2013), both of which were broadly reviewed and nominated for literary prizes.

In 2015 his novel Lizzie, written with the highly acclaimed and prize-nominated poet Liesbeth Lagemaat, was published under the pseudonym Eva Wanjek.

Rivieren (Rivers) was awarded the prestigious ECI Literature Prize (formerly the AKO) in 2016. His latest novel, De pelikaan (The Pelican), was published in 2017. His work has been translated into English, Italian, German, and Hungarian.

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Marga Minco

Marga Minco (pseudoniem van Sara Minco) debuteerde in 1957 met Het bittere kruid, bekroond met de Vijverbergprijs (nu F. Bordewijkprijs). Ook haar latere werk, De andere kant (1959), Een leeg huis (1966), De val (1983), De glazen brug (1986), Nagelaten dagen (1997) en de bundel verzamelde verhalen Achter de muur (2010), had veelal de Tweede Wereldoorlog en de nasleep daarvan als onderwerp. Voor haar oeuvre ontving Minco de Annie Romeinprijs (1999), de Constantijn Huygensprijs (2005) en de P. C. Hooftprijs (2019). Haar boeken zijn in vele talen vertaald.

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Paul de Wispelaere

Paul de Wispelaere was een Vlaamse schrijver, criticus en hoogleraar Nederlandse letterkunde.

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Paul de Wispelaere was a Flemish writer, critic and professor of Dutch literature.

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John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American

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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.

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).

Grunberg publishes novels about once a year but also writes columns and essays in a wide variety of Dutch and international newspapers and magazines. He does not restrict himself o

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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.
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'

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Ágota Kristóf

Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.

Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destructio

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Jan Wolkers

Jan Hendrik Wolkers was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter.

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.

From 1980 until his death, Wolkers resided on

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Hugo Claus

Hugo Maurice Julien Claus was een Vlaams schrijver. Hij was een veelzijdig kunstenaar: romancier, dichter, toneelschrijver, schilder en filmregisseur.
Toen hij opteerde voor euthanasie (legaal in België) veroorzaakte dit veel deining.

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Hugo Maurice Julien Claus was a leading Belgian author, writing primarily in Dutch. He was prominent as a novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director.
His death by euthanasia, which is legal in Belgium, led to considerable controversy.

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Herman Brusselmans

Herman Frans Martha Brusselmans is een Vlaamse schrijver.

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Herman Frans Martha Brusselmans is a Flemish writer.

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Hubert Lampo

Hubert Léon Lampo was een Vlaamse schrijver.

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Hubert Léon Lampo was a Flemish writer.

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F. Bordewijk

Ferdinand Bordewijk was born in Amsterdam and studied law in Leiden. After graduation he worked at a Rotterdam law firm.

His first published work was a volume of poetry titled Paddestoelen ("Mushrooms") under the pen-name Ton Ven. It was not particularly well received.

His breakthrough came with the short novels Blokken ("Blocks", 1931), Knorrende Beesten ("Growling Animals", 1933) and Bint (1934), and two longer works Rood paleis ("Red Palace", 1936) and Karakter ("Character", 1938).

His style, which is terse and symbolic, is considered magic realism. He was awarded the P.C. Hooftprijs in 1953 and the Constantijn Huygens award in 1957.

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Tom Lanoye

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Tom Lanoye (his name is pronounced the French way: /lanwa/) was born August 27, 1958 in the Belgian city Sint Niklaas. He is a novelist, poet, columnist, screenwriter and playwright. His literary work has been published and/or performed in over fifteen languages. Lanoye lives and works in Antwerp (Belgium) and Cape Town (South Africa).

Lanoye is not only a writer, but also an entrepreneur. As the youngest son of a butcher, he self-published his first work. In his own words, 'Just like all the punk bands did in those days: out of dissatisfaction with the existing structures, and to learn the trade from

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Jeroen Brouwers

Jeroen Brouwers was a Dutch journalist and writer.

From 1964 to 1976 Brouwers worked as an editor at Manteau publishers in Brussels. In 1964 he made his literary debut with Het mes op de keel (The Knife to the Throat).

He won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 1989 for De zondvloed, and in 1995 the Prix Femina for International works for his book Bezonken rood (Sunken Red). In 2007 he refused the Dutch Literature Prize (Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren) - the highest literary accolade in the Dutch-speaking world - because he considered the prize money of €16,000 too low for all his work.

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Willem Elsschot

Willem Elsschot is het pseudoniem van Alfonsus Josephus de Ridder, een Vlaamse dichter en schrijver.

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Willem Elsschot is the pseudonym of Alfonsus Josephus de Ridder, a Flemish poet and writer.

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Stefan Brijs

Stefan Brijs (born 29 December 1969) is a Belgian novelist writing in Dutch. He was born in Genk, where he lived most of his life. He finished his studies for teacher in 1990. Since 1999 he is a full-time writer. In 2003 he moved to the province of Antwerp.

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Dimitri Verhulst

Na zijn debuut in 1999 schreef Dimitri Verhulst 13 boeken, romans, verhalen, novellen, poëzie en toneel. Zijn werk verschijnt in meer dan 20 talen over de hele wereld en hij wordt gezien als een van de grote schrijvers uit de Lage Landen. De klassieker De helaasheid der dingen werd bekroond met de Gouden Uil Publieksprijs, met Godverdomse dagen op een bol won hij de Libris Literatuurprijs. Zijn laatste, De laatkomer, verkocht binnen een half jaar meer dan 75 000 exemplaren, wordt verfilmd en over de hele wereld vertaald.

• 2007 - Publieksprijs Gouden Uil voor De helaasheid der dingen
• 2007 - Humo's Gouden Bladwijzer voor De helaasheid der dingen
• 2008 - De Inktaap voor De helaasheid der dingen, literaire jongerenprijs Vlaanderen, Nederland e

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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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Jeroen Olyslaegers

Jeroen Olyslaegers is een Vlaamse schrijver.

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Jeroen Olyslaegers is a Flemish writer.

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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer is a poet and writer. Distinguished in nearly every genre imaginable, he is one of the most celebrated authors of the Dutch language and is recognized as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary Dutch literature. He has more than forty titles to his name, including poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays, scientific studies, columns, translations and anthologies. Exhibiting a powerful style and classical command of form, his work has contributed to literary revival and growing engagement, both of which are explicitly expressed in his work as a columnist and television documentary maker as well.

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Gerard Walschap

Baron Jacob Lodewijk Gerard Walschap was een Vlaamse schrijver.

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Baron Jacob Lodewijk Gerard Walschap was a Flemish writer.

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Virginie Loveling

Virginie Loveling was een Vlaamse dichter en schrijfster. Zij was de jongere zuster van Rosalie Loveling en de tante van Cyriel Buysse.

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Virginie Loveling was a Flemish poet and writer. She was the younger sister of Rosalie Loveling and the aunt of Cyriel Buysse. In 1870, the two sisters published poems together which brought them instant recognition.

Virginie wrote poems, novellas, novels and journalistic prose.

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Mathijs Deen

Mathijs Deen (1962) is een Nederlandse schrijver, radiomaker (VPRO-radioprogramma OVT) en voorlezer van audioboeken.

Voor Over Oude Wegen ontving Deen in 2018 de Halewijnprijs. Het Lichtschip (La Nave Faro) is door de havenautoriteiten van Livorno bekroond vanwege zijn verdienste als verspreider van kennis over de zeevaart.

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Geert van Istendael

Geert van Istendael, pseudoniem van Geert Maria Mauritius Julianus Vanistendael is een Vlaamse dichter en schrijver. Hij is/was ook journalist, literair vertaler en nieuwslezer.

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Geert van Istendael, psydonym of Geert Maria Mauritius Julianus Vanstendael is a Flemish poet and writer. He also is/was journalist, literary translator and news anchor.

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Charlotte Mutsaers

Charlotte Mutsaers (1942) is schrijfster en beeldend kunstenaar, maar ook dierenliefhebber en forever young. Voor haar oeuvre kreeg zij in 2010 de P.C. Hooft-prijs. Ze woont afwisselend in Amsterdam, Oostende en Frankrijk.

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Herman Brusselmans

Herman Frans Martha Brusselmans is een Vlaamse schrijver.

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Herman Frans Martha Brusselmans is a Flemish writer.

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Gerard Walschap

Baron Jacob Lodewijk Gerard Walschap was een Vlaamse schrijver.

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Baron Jacob Lodewijk Gerard Walschap was a Flemish writer.

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Marcellus Emants

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

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Karel van de Woestijne

Karel Peter Edward Marie van de Woestijne was een Vlaamse dichter-schrijver.

van de Woestijne groeide op in zijn geboortestad Gent en volgde er een opleiding als vrij student in de Germaanse filologie. Vanaf 1911 werd hij ambtenaar te Brussel en vanaf 1920 doceerde hij de cursussen inleiding tot de literaire kritiek en geschiedenis van de Nederlandse letterkunde aan de universiteit van Gent.
Als dichter wordt hij beschouwd als de grootste Vlaamse moderne dichter na Gezelle. Daarnaast schreef hij ook proza en was hij actief als criticus.
In 1914 kreeg hij de August Beernaertprijs voor de bundel Interludiën, en voor diezelfde bundel ontving hij in 1915 de driejaarlijkse staatsprijs voor Nederlandse letterkunde (periode 1910-1914). Voor Zon in de

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