Arie Storm

(The Hague, 1963) is a writer and literary critic. Not only does many an author fear his weekly reviews in Het Parool newspaper, his novels also raise high emotions. Storm enjoys balancing on the edge of fact and fiction: his latest novel, Een diadeem van dauw (A Diadem of Dew, 2017) features, for his third outing, the character August Voois, who also happens to be a writer and literary critic working on a novel that happens to share that title. In Storm's earlier novel, Luisteren hoe huizen ademen (Listening to Houses Breathe), Voois criticized the hosts of a radio program in which he has a segment; soon after, Storm had to quit his books segment on the Tros Nieuwsshow.