Rudi van Dantzig (Amsterdam, 4 August 1933 - 19 January 2012), was a Dutch choreographer, ballet dancer and writer. Since 1965 he was co-artistic leader of Het Nationale Ballet (Amsterdam, The Netherl…
I was born in Dublin, Ireland, and studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. In 2015, I was awarded an Honorary Doctorate o…
Kelley Armstrong has been telling stories since before she could write. Her earliest written efforts were disastrous. If asked for a story about girls and dolls, hers would invariably feature undead g…
Aidan Chambers was a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Printz Award for Postcards from No Man's Land (1999). For his "lasting…
Edward Morgan Forster, generally published as E.M. Forster, was an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class differenc…
Meg Rosoff was born in Boston and had three or four careers in publishing and advertising before she moved to London in 1989, where she lives now with her husband and daughter. Formerly a Young Adult …
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 …
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.
Thea Beckman (1923-2004) was born in Rotterdam. She began writing in 1947, but it was not until her children were grown that she devoted herself to writing full time. Crusade in Jeans was first publis…
Johan Goossens (Sprang-Capelle, 17 november 1982) is een Nederlands cabaretier, schrijver en voormalig docent. In zijn werk komen anekdotes voor over zijn ervaringen voor de klas en zijn wederwaardigh…
Nico Dros (Texel, 1956) studeerde geschiedenis in Amsterdam. Hij debuteerde in 1991 met de historische roman Noorderburen over de lotgevallen van een aristocraat die in de Franse tijd naar een vergete…
Anna van Praag schrijft jeugdboeken, blogs, columns en artikelen voor kranten en tijdschriften. Ze publiceerde al meerdere kinder- en jeugdboeken en maakte naam met haar detectiveserie over Isabel Sno…
Peter Zantingh is schrijver en journalist. Hij publiceerde vier romans en twee sportboeken. Zijn derde roman Na Mattias werd getipt door het DWDD-boekenpanel. Tussentijds (Das Mag, september 2…
Maurits de Bruijn (1984) schreef eerder de romans 'Broer' en 'De achterkant van de zon'. Van zijn hand verscheen tevens het non-fictieboek 'Ook mijn Holocaust' en de bundel 'Op de sofa. Essays over th…
