Tessa de Loo
Tessa de Loo is de pen name of Johanna Martina (Tineke) Duyvené de Wit.
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Uwe Timm
Uwe Timm was the youngest son in his family. His brother, 16 years his senior, was a soldier in the Waffen SS and died in Ukraine in 1943. Decades later, Uwe Timm approached his relationship with his father and brother in the critically acclaimed novel In my brother's shadow.
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After working as a furrier, Timm studied Philosophy and German in Munich and Paris, achieving a PhD in German literature in 1971 with his thesis: The Problem of Absurdity in the Works of Albert Camus. During his studies, Timm was engaged in leftist activities of the 1960s. He became a member of the Socialist German Student Union and was associated with Benno Ohnesorg. From 1973 to 1981 he was a member of the German Communist Party. Three times Timm has been called as a -
Carry Slee
Carolina Sophia (Carry) Slee (Amsterdam, July 1, 1949) is a Dutch children's author. She also writes books for adults.
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Her books are based on teenagers, who have problems with their environment and are thus deeper into trouble. Or children who do not understand why mommy is acting so strangely, and where her big belly is suddenly coming from!
For her first books were her own daughters a major source of inspiration. For "Sorrow with mayonnaise" she used a lot of stories where a daughter came home. The atmosphere in the classroom in the book was exactly in the class of the subsidiary. The nasty girl Simone Slee is based on a neighbor kid that her daughters thought was very annoying.
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Adam Foulds
Adam Foulds (born 1974) is a British novelist and poet.
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He was educated at Bancroft's School, read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford under Craig Raine, and graduated with an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 2001. Foulds published The Truth About These Strange Times, a novel, in 2007. This won a Betty Trask Award. The novel, which is set in the present day, is concerned in part with the World Memory Championships, and earned him the title of Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. The report of this in The Sunday Times included the information that he had previously worked as a fork-lift truck driver.
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Tim Krabbé
Tim Krabbé is de auteur van bestsellers als Het Gouden Ei, De Renner, De Grot en Marte Jacobs, die ook internationaal succesvol zijn. Verschillende van zijn boeken werden verfilmd.
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Michiko Kakutani
Michiko Kakutani is a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic and the former chief book critic of The New York Times.
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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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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' -
Vonne van der Meer
Vonne van der Meer werd in 1952 in Eindhoven geboren. Ze was het jongste kind in een gezin van drie. Haar moeder was een fanatieke lezer die haar kinderen veel en graag voorlas. De familie verhuisde naar Laren, waar Van der Meer na de lagere school de MMS bezocht. Na haar eindexamen ging ze een jaar naar een high school in de Verenigde Staten, waar haar liefde voor het toneel werd aangewakkerd door de acteerlessen die ze volgde.
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Twee jaar later werd ze toegelaten tot de regieafdeling van de Amsterdamse Theaterschool. Tijdens deze opleiding bleef ze eigen werk schrijven: verhalen, toneel, schetsen. Al snel werd ze de belangrijkste tekstleverancier van haar klas: "Als er voor Koninginnedag een straattheaterstuk gemaakt moest worden, bewerkte i -
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.
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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. -
Marcel Möring
Marcel Möring was born in 1957 in Enschede, an industrial town near the Dutch-German border, where he attended a Montessori primary school. In the late sixties his family moved north, to Assen, a small town moderately famous for its annual TT motor races. He finished secondary school and studied Dutch literature for two years, then went from one odd job to another. Since he had already decided to become a writer at the age of thirteen, he saw no point in further education. He wrote several plays in those years, producing and directing two of them, and moved to Rotterdam, the second biggest city in the Netherlands. Möring published his first novel, Mendels Erfenis, in 1990, to almost unanimous critical acclaim. His second novel, Het Grote Ve
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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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Karel Glastra van Loon
Karel Reinier Glastra van Loon was een Nederlandse schrijver, publicist, columnist, cabaretier en politiek activist.
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J. Bernlef
Bernlef (previously J. Bernlef) is the pseudonym of Dutch writer, poet, and translator Hendrik Jan Marsman. He occasionally used the nom de plume: Henk Bernlef.
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Between 1959 and 2012 Bernlef wrote a large number of novels, stories and poems. Amongst others he received the Constantijn Huygens prijs (1984), the AKO Literatuurprijs (1987) and the PC Hooftprijs (1994). His work is characterized by a sober language and an unflagging fascination with the workings of the human memory. His most famous novel is Hersenschimmen (1984) and describes the process of dementia from the point of view of the sufferer, Maarten Klein. (Source: de Volkskrant 29/10/2012) -
Godfried Bomans
Godfried Bomans was a popular Dutch author and television personality. Much of his work remains untranslated into English.
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Jeroen Brouwers
Jeroen Brouwers was a Dutch journalist and writer.
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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. -
Tommy Wieringa
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Oek de Jong
Oek de Jong (born in 1952) is the author of a relatively small, but highly esteemed literary oeuvre of novels, short stories and essays. He is best known for his novels: Opwaaiende zomerjurken (Billowing Summerskirts, 1979), Cirkel in het gras (Circle in the Grass, 1985) and Hokwerda's kind (Hokwerda's Child, 2002). His books have sold more than half a million copies. His work has been translated into nine languages. He was awarded the Reina Prinsen Geerligs Prize, the Bordewijk Prize and the Busken Huet Prize, and he was shortlisted for the Libris Prize in Holland and the Golden Owl Award in Belgium.
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As an essayist (trained as an art historian) he has written extensively on the arts.
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Rosamund Lupton
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Thank you for visiting this bio. My books are not easy to slot into a particular genre, and you can usually be found under 'contemporary fiction', 'literary fiction', 'political thriller' and 'psychological thriller.' If you try one I hope you enjoy it.
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Three Hours was chosen by the Times as their thriller of the year. The Sunday Times called Three Hours 'a brilliant literary thriller...reminiscent of both Greek tragedy and Shakespeare’
Ruth Jones, author and actress, said 'It's gob-smackingly, heart-stoppingly, breath-holdingly brilliant.. the tension will blow your mind....'
Her debut novel, 'Sister' was a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, a Sunday Times and New York Times best seller and the fastest selling debut in WHSmiths -
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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Jaap Robben
Jaap Robben (1984) does not write specifically for an age, but for everyone in particular. With his debut novel 'You have me to love' (Birk), he conquered booksellers, readers as well as critics. Birk was awarded the Dutch Booksellers Award, the ANV Debut Award and the Diorapthe Jongeren Literatuurprijs. Only in the Netherlands and Belgium more than 80.000 copies have been sold so far.
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Summer Brother (Zomervacht) was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021 and received a lot of praise in- and outside the Dutch language borders. Zomervacht was made into an awardwinning movie by Joren Molter.
In 2022 he published his latest and much-discussed novel Afterlight (Schemerleven) that became a bestseller too and was awarded with the Conf -
Sacha Bronwasser
Sacha Bronwasser is a Dutch art historian, journalist and novelist.
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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.
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Roxane van Iperen
Roxane van Iperen (1976) is auteur en jurist. In 2016 verscheen haar debuutroman Schuim der aarde, waarmee ze de Hebban Debuutprijs won. In 2018 volgde 't Hooge Nest, waarvan tot op heden meer dan 275.000 exemplaren zijn verkocht. Het werd bekroond met de Opzij Literatuurprijs 2019 en stond op de shortlist van de NS Publieksprijs 2020. Elf landen verwierven de vertaalrechten, waaronder het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Duitsland, waar het boek ook de bestsellerlijsten haalde. De filmrechten zijn verkocht aan Man Up, het productiebedrijf van Carice van Houten en Halina Reijn. Van Iperen heeft een vaste column over macht in Vrij Nederland en schrijft voor diverse media.
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Roxane van Iperen (1976) is a lawyer and publicist. She writes for FD, NRC Handel -
Yorick Goldewijk
Yorick Goldewijk schreef eerder o.a. Films die nergens draaien, waarvoor hij de Gouden Griffel won. De Engelse vertaling van dit boek werd uitgeroepen tot Times Children's Book of the Year.
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Marten Toonder
Marten Toonder (2 May 1912 – 27 July 2005) was a Dutch comic strip creator. He was probably the most successful comic artist in the Netherlands and had a great influence on the Dutch language by introducing new words and expressions. He is most famous for his series Tom Puss and Panda.
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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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C. Buddingh'
Cornelis Buddingh' (roepnaam: Kees) was een Nederlands dichter, prozaïst en vertaler. Hij dankt zijn bekendheid vooral aan de gedichten De blauwbilgorgel (1943) en Pluk de Dag (1966).
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Buddingh's roepnaam was Kees, geschreven met een K. "Een heleboel mensen kunnen, vreemd genoeg, niet tegen initialen in schrijversnamen. Dat je als C. Buddingh' publiceert nemen ze - bewust of onbewust - ergens niet: die 'C' moet en zal een naam worden. En zo prijk je - zonder dat je het zelf wilt - op de meest uiteenlopende plaatsen als 'Cees', een voornaam die ik zelf wel als laatste zou uitkiezen." Buddingh' maakte zelf altijd onderscheid tussen de persoonsnaam Cornelis (Kees) Buddingh' en de auteursnaam C. Buddingh'.
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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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Elisabeth Keesing
Elisabeth Keesing, or to be precise, Elisabeth Emmy van Tricht-Keesing, and before 1977 De Jong-Keesing, was a Dutch author.
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