Armando (artist)W
Armando (artist)

Armando, born Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd, was a Dutch painter, sculptor and writer.

Maarten BiesheuvelW
Maarten Biesheuvel

Maarten Biesheuvel was a Dutch writer of short stories and novellas. He made his literary debut in 1972 with the short story collection In de bovenkooi. He received the "Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs" in 1984 for Reis door mijn kamer. In 2007 he received the P. C. Hooft Award.

Willem BrakmanW
Willem Brakman

Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman was a Dutch writer who made his literary debut with the novel Een winterreis in 1961. Brakman received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1980. He was born on June 13th, 1922 in The Hague, Netherlands, and died on May 8th, 2008 in the same country.

Jeroen BrouwersW
Jeroen Brouwers

Jeroen Godfried Marie (Jeroen) Brouwers is a Dutch writer.

Louis FerronW
Louis Ferron

Louis Ferron was a Dutch novelist and poet.

Hermine de GraafW
Hermine de Graaf

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 writer was in 1984 with the publication of Een kaart, niet het gebied, a collection of ten short stories. In 1988 De Graaf won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for her novel De regels van het huis.

Arnon GrunbergW
Arnon Grunberg

Arnon Yasha Yves Grunberg is a Dutch writer of novels, essays, and columns, as well as a journalist. He wrote some of his work under the heteronym Marek van der Jagt. He lives in New York.

A. F. Th. van der HeijdenW
A. F. Th. van der Heijden

Adrianus Franciscus Theodorus van der Heijden is a Dutch writer.

Stefan HertmansW
Stefan Hertmans

Stefan Hertmans is a Flemish Belgian writer. He was head of a study centre at University College Ghent and affiliated researcher of the Ghent University. He won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2002 for the novel Als op de eerste dag.

Oek de JongW
Oek de Jong

Oebele Klaas Anne (Oek) de Jong is a Dutch novelist.

Doeschka MeijsingW
Doeschka Meijsing

Maria Johanna Meijsing was a Dutch novelist. She won the AKO Literatuurprijs in 2000 for her novel De tweede man, and in 2008 the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for her novel Over de liefde. Doeschka Meijsing is the older sister of writer Geerten Meijsing and philosopher Monica Meijsing.

Marcel MöringW
Marcel Möring

Marcel Möring is a Dutch writer. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2007 for his novel Dis, translated into English under the title In A Dark Wood.

Cees NooteboomW
Cees Nooteboom

Cees Nooteboom is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel Rituelen, which received the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press of the United States. LSU Press published his first two novels in English in the following years, as well as other works through 1990. Harcourt and Grove Press have since published some of his works in English.

Koen PeetersW
Koen Peeters

Koen Peeters is a Belgian writer. He was shortlisted for the Libris Literature Prize for his book the Great European Novel which has since been translated into multiple languages. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize in 2010 for De bloemen. In 2017 he received the ECI Literature Prize for De mensengenezer.

Leo PleysierW
Leo Pleysier

Leo Pleysier is a Belgian writer.

Helga RuebsamenW
Helga Ruebsamen

Helga Ruebsamen was a Dutch writer. She received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 1998 for Het lied en de waarheid.

Jan SiebelinkW
Jan Siebelink

Jan Geurt Siebelink is a Dutch author. In 2005, he wrote the novel Knielen op een bed violen that sold over 700,000 copies. In 1991, he won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for De overkant van de rivier.

Peter VerhelstW
Peter Verhelst

Peter Verhelst is a Belgian Flemish novelist, poet and dramatist. He won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for Tongkat. His latest novel is a political thriller, Zwerm.

Jacq Firmin VogelaarW
Jacq Firmin Vogelaar

Franciscus Wilhelmus Maria Broers was a Dutch writer, who published using the pseudonym Jacq Firmin Vogelaar. In 1992 he won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for his novel De dood als meisje van acht. In 2006 he won the Constantijn Huygens Prize for his collected works.

J. J. VoskuilW
J. J. Voskuil

Johannes Jacobus Voskuil was a Dutch novelist known best for his epic cycle of novels Het Bureau. In 1997 he won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for his novels Meneer Beerta and Vuile handen, and in 1998 the Libris Prize for Het bureau 3: Plankton.

L. H. WienerW
L. H. Wiener

Lodewijk Willem Henri Wiener, writing as Lodewijk-Henri Wiener and L.H. Wiener is a Dutch writer.

Tommy WieringaW
Tommy Wieringa

Tommy Wieringa is a Dutch writer. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize in 2006 for his novel Joe Speedboot (2005), and the Libris Prize in 2013 for the novel Dit zijn de namen (2012). In 2018 he won the Bookspot Literatuurprijs for his novel De heilige Rita. His novel The Death of Murat Idrissi, translated by Sam Garrett from Dutch, was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2019.