Nico Dijkshoorn

(Amsterdam, NL 1960) studied Dutch and geography and worked as a librarian until his breakthrough in 1999 as an Internet columnist with his pieces on the tv programme Big Brother. His great talent struck immediately: the ironical, contrary and often moving descriptions of human behaviour. Nationwide renown came with a sports column in de Volkskrant. After that he collaborated in comedy tv programmes Café de Wereld, Draadstaal and Dit was het Nieuws. He also wrote for the football magazine Hard Gras and Muziekkrant OOR. Since 2008 he has been a regular poet on DWDD, the popular prime time tv talkshow. In 2007 his Grote GeenStijl Winterboek (Great NoStyle Winterbook) appeared and under the penname P. Kouwes he published the anthology of poems Daar schrik je toch van (It makes you start). Followed in 2009 by De tranen van Kuif den Dolder (The Tears of Kuif den Dolder), a novel about a fictitious football hero. In 2012 Dijkshoorn and Ronald Giphart toured the theatres with Matennaaiers (Screw Your Buddies). In 2012 he wrote the Dutch book week essay Verder alles goed (Everything All Right) while in that same year Appeleren (Appeal with the Ref), a collection of football columns, and Dijkshoorn kijkt kunst, a book on looking at art, also appeared.