Simon Vestdijk

Born in the small town of Harlingen, Vestdijk studied medicine in Amsterdam, but turned to literature after a few years as a doctor. He became one of the most important 20th-century writers in the Netherlands. His prolificity as a novelist was legendary, but he was at least as important as an essayist on e.g., literature, art, music and religion. He also wrote poetry and short stories. His work has been translated into most Western European languages.

If you like author Simon Vestdijk here is the list of authors you may also like

Buy books on Amazon

Total similar authors (21)

Carry van Bruggen

Carry van Bruggen is the penname of Carolina Lea de Haan. She also wrote under the penname Justine Abbing.

See for a full list of all her work the DBNL database: http://dbnl.nl/auteurs/auteur.php?id=...
Buy books on Amazon
Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.

McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times P
Buy books on Amazon
Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski (born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books

Charles Bukowski was the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to
Buy books on Amazon
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'
Buy books on Amazon
Willem Frederik Hermans

Willem Frederik Hermans is one of the greatest post-war Dutch authors. Before devoting his entire life to writing, Hermans had been teaching Physical Geography at the University of Groningen for many years. He had already started writing and publishing in magazines at a young age. His polemic and provocative style led to a court case as early as 1952. His caustic pieces were compiled in Mandarijnen op zwavelzuur (Mandarines in Sulphuric Acid, 1963), which was reprinted with additions a number of times. It is Hermans’s belief that in order to survive people have to create their own reality. It is inevitable that all these experiences of reality will collide. Language is essential to create order out of chaos and plays an important role in th
Buy books on Amazon
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.

Hugo Claus in de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia

Hugo Claus in de Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren

Hugo Claus bij "Schrijversgewijs"

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.

Hugo Claus in the English Wikipedia
Buy books on Amazon
Hubert Lampo

Hubert Léon Lampo was een Vlaamse schrijver.

Hubert Lampo bij Hubert Lampo Genootschap

Hubert Lampo in de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia

Hubert Lampo in de Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren

Hubert Lampo bij "Schrijversgewijs"

Hubert Léon Lampo was a Flemish writer.

Hubert Lampo in the English Wikipedia
Buy books on Amazon
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
Buy books on Amazon
Gerard Reve

Gerard Reve was een Nederlands schrijver en dichter. Samen met Harry Mulisch en W.F. Hermans wordt hij gerekend tot De Grote Drie: de drie belangrijkste Nederlandse schrijvers van na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Tot zijn bekendste werken behoren De avonden (roman uit 1947) en Werther Nieland (novelle uit 1949). Tot 1973 schreef Reve onder zijn oorspronkelijke naam Gerard Kornelis van het Reve, maar vereenvoudigde deze later tot Gerard Reve. Hij debuteerde in 1946 in het tijdschrift Criterium met de novelle De ondergang van de familie Boslowits, een jaar later verscheen de klassieker De avonden. Reve zou uiteindelijk een enorm oeuvre voortbrengen, waaronder een groot aantal ‘brievenboeken’. In 1969 ontving Reve de P.C. Hooftprijs en in 2001 werd
Buy books on Amazon
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.

(from Wikipedia)
Buy books on Amazon
Armando

Armando is the pen name of Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd.
Buy books on Amazon
Connie Palmen

Connie Palmen (Aldegonda Petronella Huberta Maria Palmen) is a Dutch author. She was born on November 25, 1955 in Sint Odiliënberg.

Palmen debuted with the novel De wetten (1990), published in the USA as The Laws (1993), translated by Richard Huijing. The Laws was shortlisted for the 1996 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Her second novel was De vriendschap (1995), published in the USA as The Friendship (2000), translated by Ina Rilke.

Palmen had a relationship with Ischa Meijer in the years preceding his death in 1995. From 1999 on she lived with D66 politician Hans van Mierlo, and the couple married on 11 November 2009 until his death on 11 March 2010.
Buy books on Amazon
Frans Pointl

Frans Pointl werd op 1 augustus 1933 in Amsterdam geboren als zoon van een Joodse moeder, Rebecca van Dam, en een Oostenrijkse vader, de kunstschilder, cineast, fotograaf en muzikant Christian Pointl. Frans groeide op in Heemstede. Zijn ouders scheidden toen hij vijf jaar was.

In 1942 ging Rebecca van Dam bij familie in Amsterdam wonen, aan de Waalstraat. Frans werd bij een pleeggezin in Krommenie ondergebracht. Later verhuisde hij naar een kindertehuis. Meteen na de oorlog werd Frans herenigd met zijn moeder, die bijna haar gehele familie verloren had. Samen betrokken zij een eenvoudige huurkamer aan de Stalinlaan, de latere Vrijheidslaan. Frans begon aan een MULO-opleiding en bleef na het behaalde examen bij zijn moeder wonen. Rebecca over
Buy books on Amazon
Multatuli

Eduard Douwes Dekker, better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860) in which he denounced the abuses of colonialism in the colony of the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia). He is considered one of the Netherlands' greatest authors.

Determined to expose the scandals he had witnessed during his years in the Dutch East Indies, Douwes Dekker began to write newspaper articles and pamphlets. Little notice was taken of these early publications until, in 1860, he published his satirical anticolonialist novel Max Havelaar: The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company under the pseudonym Multatuli. Douwes Dekker's pen name is derived
Buy books on Amazon
Sacha Bronwasser

Sacha Bronwasser is a Dutch art historian, journalist and novelist.
Buy books on Amazon
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.
Buy books on Amazon
Anya Niewierra

Anya Niewierra is de schrijfster van de thrillers Vrij uitzicht en Het Dossier. Ze woont, werkt, schildert en schrijft in Zuid-Limburg en in de Pyreneeën. Zowel haar jeugdjaren binnen de serene abdijmuren van Gymnasium Rolduc als het deels wonen in Frans Catalonië hebben Niewierra geïnspireerd tot het schrijven van Het bloemenmeisje.
Buy books on Amazon
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.
Buy books on Amazon
Lucas Rijneveld

Lucas Rijneveld (b. 1991) grew up in a Reformed farming family in North Brabant before moving to Utrecht. One of the greatest new voices in Dutch literature, his first poetry collection, Kalfsvlies, was awarded the C. Buddingh' Prize for best poetry debut in 2015, with the newspaper de Volkskrant naming him literary talent of the year. In 2018, Atlas Contact published his first novel, De avond is ongemak (The Discomfort of Evening), which won the prestigious ANV Debut Prize and was a national bestseller. The UK edition won the Booker International Prize 2020. Alongside his writing career, Rijneveld works on a dairy farm.
Buy books on Amazon
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.
Buy books on Amazon
Armando

Armando is the pen name of Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd.
Buy books on Amazon