1. Michel Faber (1960)

Dutch Writer

Perhaps most famous for his novel The Crimson Petal and the White, this Dutch writer also penned the O. Henry Prize winning short story "Bye Bye Natalia" and several other...

2. Ferry Piekart (1974)

Dutch Writer

Piekart is a Dutch author of children's books. His book Playing With Stuff - Outrageous Games with Ordinary Objects was published in the US by Kane/Miller Book Publishers.

3. Abdelkader Benali (1975)

Dutch Writer

Abdelkader Benali is a Moroccan-Dutch writer and journalist. He has been described as one of the Netherlands' leading writers. When he was four years old he and his family of...

4. Beb Vuyk (1905)

Dutch Writer

Elizabeth Vuyk was a Dutch writer of Indo descent. Her Indo father was born in the Dutch East Indies and had a mother from Madura but was ‘repatriated’ to the...

5. Annie M. G. Schmidt (1911)

Dutch Writer

Anna Maria Geertruida Annie Schmidt was a Dutch writer. She is called the mother of the Dutch theatrical song and the queen of Dutch children's literature praised for her delicious...

6. Imme Dros (1936)

Dutch Writer

Imme Dros is a Dutch writer of children's literature.

7. H. C. ten Berge (1938)

Dutch Writer

Johannes Cornelis ten Berge is a Dutch poet prose writer and translator who publishes under the name H. C. ten Berge. He has won numerous awards throughout his career among...

8. Maarten Biesheuvel (1939)

Dutch Writer

Maarten Biesheuvel is a Dutch writer. He made his literary debut in 1972 with the short story collection In de bovenkooi. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 1984 for...

9. Jacques Hamelink (1939)

Dutch Writer

Jacobus Marinus Hamelink better known as Jacques Hamelink is a Dutch poet novelist and literary critic who is best known for his early short story collections such as Het plantaardig...

10. Jeroen Brouwers (1940)

Dutch Writer

Jeroen Godfried Marie Brouwers is a Dutch journalist and writer. From 1964 to 1976 Brouwers worked as an editor at Manteau publishers in Brussels. In 1964 he made his literary...

11. Abram de Swaan (1942)

Dutch Writer

Abram de Swaan is a Dutch essayist sociologist and professor emeritus from the University of Amsterdam. He received the P. C. Hooft Award for 2008.

12. Gerrit Berveling (1944)

Dutch Writer

Gerrit Berveling is a Dutch Esperanto author. He studied Classical Languages at Leiden University and Theology at Utrecht and Leiden Universities. After 14 years of teaching general history and classical...

13. Johan Veenstra (1946)

Dutch Writer

Johan Veenstra is a well-known author in the Frisia region of the Netherlands. He has written various books in his mother tongue Stellingwervian Low German. He was born in Wolvega...

14. Adriaan van Dis (1946)

Dutch Writer

Adriaan van Dis is a Dutch author with Indo roots residing in France. Van Dis debuted in 1983 with the novella Nathan Sid. In 1995 his book Indische Duinen which...

15. Theodor Holman (1953)

Dutch Writer

Theodor Holman is a Dutch journalist presenter and writer of Indo descent. He studied Dutch language and History at the University of Amsterdam. He was editor of the satirical student...

16. Anneke Brassinga (1948)

Dutch Writer

Anneke Brassinga is a Dutch writer and translator. She was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 2008 and has received numerous other prizes as well.

17. Renate Dorrestein (1954)

Dutch Writer

Renate Dorrestein is a Dutch writer journalist and feminist. She won the Annie Romein prize in 1993 for her complete body of work. She started working as a journalist for...

18. Leon de Winter (1954)

Dutch Writer

Leon de Winter is a Dutch writer and columnist.

19. Klaske Hiemstra (1954)

Dutch Writer

Klaske Hiemstra is a Frisian-language writer. As a child of Frisian parents Hiemstra grew up bilingual. From the age of eight she published in Dutch in the children's section of...

20. Geerten Meijsing (1950)

Dutch Writer

Geerten Jan Maria Meijsing is a Dutch writer translator and novelist. He won the AKO Literatuurprijs in 1988 for his novel Veranderlijk en wisselvallig and in 1999 the Gouden Uil...

21. Aristide von Bienefeldt (1964)

Dutch Writer

Aristide von Bienefeldt is the pseudonym of a Dutch writer whose first novel - Bekentenissen van een Stamhouder - was both praised and criticized by the Dutch and the Flemish...

22. Hermine de Graaf (1951)

Dutch Writer

Hermine de Graaf was a Dutch novelist. De Graaf studied Dutch language and literature at the University of Amsterdam and worked as a teacher in Venray. Her debut as a...

23. Frans Kellendonk (1951)

Dutch Writer

s Kellendonk was a Dutch novelist. In 1987 he won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for his novel Mystiek lichaam.

24. Willem Jan Otten (1951)

Dutch Writer

Jan Otten is a Dutch prose writer playwright and poet who in 2014 won the P. C. Hooft Award for lifetime literary achievement.

25. Oek de Jong (1952)

Dutch Writer

Oebele Klaas Anne de Jong is a Dutch novelist. He debuted in 1976 with De hemelvaart van Massimo a collection of short stories for which he received the Reina Prinsen...

26. Charles van der Leeuw (1952)

Dutch Writer

Charles van der Leeuw is a Dutch journalist currently based in Almaty Kazakhstan. After studying composition at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam he became a journalist. While working for Dutch public...

27. Peter Smit (writer) (1952)

Dutch Writer

Peter Smit is a Dutch children's writer and publicist. From 1997-2001 he belonged to the Foundation Board LIRA and from 1998 to 2004 he sat on the board of the...

28. Frank Westerman (1964)

Dutch Writer

Martin Westerman is a Dutch writer and a former journalist. He studied tropical agricultural engineering at Wageningen University and worked as a news correspondent for de Volkskrant in Belgrade and...

29. Charles den Tex (1952)

Dutch Writer

Charles den Tex is a Dutch writer.

30. Marion Bloem (1952)

Dutch Writer

Marion Bloem is a Dutch writer and film maker of Indo descent best known as author of the literary acclaimed book Geen gewoon Indisch meisje and director of the 2008...

31. Ray Kluun (1964)

Dutch Writer

Raijmondus Raymond Godefriedus Norbert van de Klundert is a Dutch author. He is well known for his novel Love Life in which he documents a fictionalized version of his own...

32. Connie Palmen (1955)

Dutch Writer

Aldegonda Petronella Huberta Maria Connie Palmen is a Dutch author. Palmen debuted with the novel De wetten published in the USA as The Laws translated by Richard Huijing. The Laws...

33. Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (1968)

Dutch Writer

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer Dutch poet novelist polemicist and classical scholar was born in Rijswijk Netherlands and having studied lived and worked in Leiden he moved permanently to Genoa Italy in...

34. Marijn Backer (1956)

Dutch Writer

Marijn Backer is a Dutch columnist teacher poet and writer. His column appears on of the NRC Handelsblad and he writes a biweekly column about education. Backer works on the...

35. Mirjam Oldenhave (1960)

Dutch Writer

Mirjam Oldenhave is a Dutch author of children's literature and the author of the 2010 Kinderboekenweekgeschenk. Initially trained as a drama therapist she taught drama and music in special education....

36. Emilie Luzac (1748)

Dutch Writer

Marguérite Emilie Luzac was a Dutch woman remembered for her letter writing. She was the second daughter of Jean Luzac book seller and publisher and Anna Hillegonda Valckenaer. On 5...

37. Kees van Beijnum (1957)

Dutch Writer

Kees van Beijnum is a Dutch writer. He grew up in Amsterdam where his mother had a bar near the Zeedijk. Before he became a writer he was a journalist....

38. Gerwin van der Werf (1969)

Dutch Writer

Gerwin van der Werf is an author of novels songwriter and instrumentalist. In April 2010 his first novel 'de Gewapende Man' was published by Uitgeverij Contact. In January 2010 his...

39. Thomas Olde Heuvelt (1983)

Dutch Writer

Thomas Olde Heuvelt; is a Dutch writer whose short stories have received awards and been nominated for such awards as the Paul Harland Prize the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation...

40. Jan Siebelink (1938)

Dutch Writer

Jan Geurt Siebelink is a Dutch author. In 2005 he wrote the novel Knielen op een bed violen that sold over 700000 copies. In 1991 he won the Ferdinand Bordewijk...

41. Arnon Grunberg (1971)

Dutch Writer

Arnon Yasha Yves Grunberg is a Dutch writer. Some of his books were written using the heteronym Marek van der Jagt.

42. Thomas van Aalten (1978)

Dutch Writer

Thomas van Aalten is a Dutch writer. He made his debut with a story in the literary magazine Zoetermeer at the age of 19. Van Aalten has written the novels...

43. Janneke Jonkman (1978)

Dutch Writer

Janneke Jonkman is a Dutch writer. After primary school Jonkman studied dance at the Koninklijk Conservatorium for three years. She quit her studies there and subsequently attended the Stedelijk Gymnasium...

44. Robert Anker (1946)

Dutch Writer

Rengert Robert Anker is a Dutch writer. In 1993 he won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for his novel De terugkeer van kapitein Rob and in 2002 the Libris Prize for...

45. Pierre Kemp (1886)

Dutch Writer

Pierre Kemp was a Dutch writer. He was the recipient of the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1956 and the P. C. Hooft Award in 1958. His younger brother was the...

46. Joan Leonardsz Blasius (Unknow)

Dutch Writer

Joan Leonardsz Blasius was a Dutch poet playwright translator and lawyer.

47. Petrus Augustus de Genestet (1829)

Dutch Writer

Petrus Augustus de Génestet was a Dutch poet and theologian. De Génestet lost both of his parents at a very young age; after that he lived with his uncle...

48. Jef Last (1898)

Dutch Writer

Josephus Carel Franciscus Last was a Dutch poet and writer. Jef Last was a writer and socially compassionate man. He had a Catholic background. However he was very young member...

49. Joseph Albert Alberdingk Thijm (1820)

Dutch Writer

Joseph Albert Alberdingk Thijm was a Dutch writer. In his triple capacity of art critic philologist and poet Thijm was an important figure of Catholic literature. After finishing his studies...

50. Pieter Langendijk (1683)

Dutch Writer

Pieter Langendijk was a damask weaver city artist dramatist and poet.