Joost de Vries

(1983) is the author of a critically acclaimed body of novels and essays, deputy editor of weekly news magazine De Groene Amsterdammer and one of the regular creators of the podcast Boeken FM. He made his debut in 2010 with Clausewitz. De Vries has been on the editorial staff of De Groene Amsterdammer since 2007, first as art editor, then as book editor and, since 2019, as deputy editor-in-chief. His publications include the novel De republiek (The Republic), the essay collection Vechtmemoires (Fight Memoires), the novel Oude meesters (Old Masters, winner Gouden Boekenuil) and the virtuoso Hogere machten (Higher Powers), a novel in which a love affair from the 1930s burns through turbulent decades while the world changes fast. In 2023, De Vries received the Frans Kellendonk Prize for his entire oeuvre.