Malcolm Timothy Gladwell is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published seven books. He is also the host of the podcas…
bell hooks (deliberately in lower-case; born Gloria Jean Watkins) was an African-American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender…
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…
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…
Herman Koch (1953) is known as a television producer and a writer. The book 'Het diner', published in 2009, was his breakthrough in the Netherlands. It was published in 17 countries. It was partly bas…
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…
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.
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…
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…
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano Frankivsk, Soviet Union. Her father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. Alexievich grew up in Belarus, where both her parents were teachers. She studied to b…
Marietje Schaake is a Fellow at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and at the Institute for Human-Centered AI. She is a columnist for the Financial Times and serves on a number of not-for-profit Boards as…
The Right Honourable Dame Jacinda Ardern was elected the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand at the age of thirty-seven, becoming the country’s youngest Prime Minister in more than 150 years. Since lea…
Eline van Wieren (1993) studeerde Creative Writing aan ArtEZ. Haar afstudeerwerk werd genomineerd voor de Afstudeerprijs. Werk van Eline verscheen eerder op onder andere Hard//Hoofd, De Optimist en No…
Anthony Passeron was born in Nice in 1983. He teaches French literature and Humanities in a secondary school. LES ENFANTS ENDORMIS (SLEEPING CHILDREN) is his first novel and is going to be published i…
KRISTEL DORELEIJERS (1993) groeide op in Eindhoven en studeerde Neerlandistiek en Taalwetenschappen aan de Universiteit Utrecht. Ze promoveerde aan Tilburg University op het ‘nieuwe’ Brabants. Nu doet ze…
Rosan Smits is a political scientist and has conducted research on radicalization and violence in war zones for many years. She led the Conflict Research Unit at the Netherlands Institute of Internati…
