Hans Lodeizen (1924–1950), groeide op in een welvarend gezin in Wassenaar. Via zijn ouders leerde hij de literatuur kennen – een dichter als J.C. Bloem kwam in het ouderlijk huis geregeld over de vloe…
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French ph…
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and, although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, …
Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, poet, columnist, filmmaker, television personality and technophile. As one half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his c…
Audre Lorde was a revolutionary Black feminist. Lorde's poetry was published very regularly during the 1960s — in Langston Hughes' 1962 New Negro Poets, USA; in several foreign anthologies; and in bla…
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC s…
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (June 10, 1863 – July 16, 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet of the late 19th and early 20th century. He is usually considered one of the foremost figures in Dutch literatur…
George Raymond Richard "R.R." Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two si…
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.
Paul Lynch is the internationally-acclaimed, prize-winning author of five novels: PROPHET SONG, BEYOND THE SEA, GRACE, THE BLACK SNOW and RED SKY IN MORNING, and the winner of the Kerry Group Irish No…
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.
Jan Hendrik Frederik Grönloh was born in Amsterdam, the oldest of four children. After an idealistic youth, he joined the Holland–Bombay Trading Company in 1904, becoming director in 1926, suffering a…
Lieke Marsman (1990-2026) debuteerde als dichter in Tirade. Voor de bundel Wat ik mijzelf graag voorhoud werd Marsman bekroond met de Lucy B en C.W van der Hoogtprijs, de Liegend Konijn Debuutprijs 20…
Bregje Hofstede (Ede, 1988) woont en werkt in Brussel, studeerde kunstgeschiedenis en Frans in Utrecht, Parijs en Berlijn, en sloot haar studie af met een onderzoeksmaster in 2012. De Hollands Maandbl…
Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad (Tilburg, 1977) is een veelzijdige schrijver, dichter, columnist, vertaler en programmamaker. Ze is programmamaker voor Winternachten, redactielid van Poëziekrant, jurylid van …
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at th…
Sibo Rugwiza Kanobana (1975) is docent aan de Open Universiteit van Nederland en een van de meest inspirerende stemmen in het huidige debat over racisme en kolonialisme. Bij De Geus verschenen eerder …
Safae el Khannoussi (1994) is schrijver en promovendus aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Oroppa werd bekroond met de Boon en de Libris Literatuur Prijs.
