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.
Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and…
Rory Stewart was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Malaysia. He served briefly as an officer in the British Army (the Black Watch), studied history and philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford and then jo…
Christopher McDougall is an American author and journalist best known for his 2009 best-selling book Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. He has …
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 …
Dutch historian mostly known for his documentary series 'In Europa' (In Europe) and book of the same name. Nowadays he gives lectures about the Netherlands in the USA.
Giuliano da Empoli è un saggista e consigliere politico italiano e svizzero che vive a Parigi, dove insegna politica comparata a Sciences-Po. Nato in Francia, è cresciuto in diversi paesi europei, si …
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer is a poet and writer. Distinguished in nearly every genre imaginable, he is one of the most celebrated authors of the Dutch language and is recognized as one of the most compell…
Karin Amatmoekrim was born in 1976, in Paramaribo, Suriname. She emigrated to the Netherlands in 1981 and has been living in Amsterdam since 1999. She studied modern literature at the University of Am…
Rutger Bregman (born April 26, 1988) is a Dutch historian and author. His books Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020) and Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (2017) were both Sunday Ti…
Peter Kanne werkte de afgelopen 25 jaar als onderzoeksadviseur, eerst bij TNS NIPO en I&O Research en nu als senior adviseur bij het gerenommeerde bureau IPSOS I&O. Hij houdt zich bezig met politiek, …
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 abdijm…
Es un joven de ascendencia marroquí nacido en Holanda, en 1991, que ha resultado ser una de las grandes promesas de la literatura en su país. Bouzamour ha vivido su vida entre dos culturas muy diferen…
Hendrik Groen, pseudonym of Peter de Smet, is a Dutch writer. He is the author of the book Pogingen iets van het leven te maken: Het geheime dagboek van Hendrik Groen, 83¼ jaar (The Secret Diary of He…
Thijs Broer (1970) studeerde Rechten en Geschiedenis in Amsterdam en Berlijn. Sinds 1997 werkt hij voor Vrij Nederland, van 2006 tot en met 2019 als politiek redacteur. Hij maakte onder andere veelbes…
Coen van de Ven (1992) is politiek redacteur van De Groene Amsterdammer. Samen met Jan Tromp schreef hij eerder het boek Wantrouwen in de wandelgangen, over de verhouding tussen politici en journalist…
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…
Petra de Koning schreef eerder De dochter van de slager, en andere verhalen uit Péc, een stad in Kosovo (2000) en samen met Cees Banning Balkan aan de Noordzee, over het Joegoslavië-tribunaal, over re…
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, w…
