Cees Nooteboom (born Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom) was a Dutch author. He has won the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren, the P.C. Hooft Award, the Pegasus Prize, the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prij…
Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western …
Guillermo Arriaga Jordán is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer. He received the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay Award for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
Hustvedt was born in Northfield, Minnesota. Her father Lloyd Hustvedt was a professor of Scandinavian literature, and her mother Ester Vegan emigrated from Norway at the age of thirty. She holds a B.A…
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 …
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-…
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.
Bert Natter (1968) debuteerde in 2008 met de roman Begeerte heeft ons aangeraakt, die werd bekroond met de Selexyz Debuutprijs en de Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogtprijs. In 2015 verschenen Remington (l…
Manon Uphoff was born in 1962 into a family of 13 children. She left home at 16, went on to study literary theory and is now an acclaimed artist and writer, whose novels have been shortlisted for nume…
Stefan Hertmans is a Flemish Belgian author, poet and essayist. He is the author of a literary and essayistic oeuvre - including poetry, novels, essays, plays, short stories. His poetry has been trans…
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, …
Aslı Erdoğan (born 1967) is a prize-winning Turkish writer, human rights activist and former columnist for the newspaper Radikal, whose second novel has been published in English Language translation.…
Docente e ricercatore all'Università Statale di Bergamo, coordina il Centro studi sui linguaggi della guerra e della violenza. Sempre presso l'Università Statale di Bergamo insegna Teorie e tecniche d…
Peter Buwalda is a Dutch writer. He was a journalist and an editor at several publishers. He was co-founder of literary music magazine Wah-Wah and wrote stories and essays for De Gids, Vrij Nederland,…
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…
Eva Meijer is a philosopher, visual artist, writer and singer-songwriter. They write novels, philosophical essays, academic texts, poems and columns, and their work has been translated into over twent…
Christine Dorothea Antoinette (Christien) Brinkgreve is sociologe en schrijfster. Zij is gehuwd met Arend Jan Heerma van Voss en moeder van twee schrijvende zonen Daan en Thomas.
Alicja Gescinska (Warschau, 1981) is schrijver en filosoof. Haar filosofische debuut De verovering van de vrijheid (2011) oogstte alom lof. Met haar debuutroman Een soort van liefde (2016) won ze de D…
Niña Weijers (Nijmegen, 1987) studied literary theory in Amsterdam and Dublin. She has published short stories, essays and articles in various literary magazines, such as Das Magazin, De Gids and De R…
Guzel Yakhina is a Russian author and screenwriter. She is a winner of the Big Book literary prize and the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award. Guzel Shamilevna Yakhina was born in Kazan. Her mother is a do…
