Xandra Schutte

(Amsterdam, 1963) has been editor-in-chief of the weekly De Groene Amsterdammer since 1 June 2008. Earlier she worked there as a literary editor. From 2000-2004 she headed the board of editors of the weekly Vrij Nederland and was a publisher with Meulenhoff publishers. She contributed regularly to the magazine Opinio and the daily newspaper Trouw. Xandra Schutte did communication studies and Dutch language and literature in Amsterdam. In 1999 she published Maskerade (Masquerade), a collection of eleven essays on the fading borders of the male and the female in culture and society. In 2008 Weg uit Nederland (Getting out of the Netherlands) appeared, a correspondence with Sarah Verroen on life in the French countryside. For some years Schutte was on the panel of the tv programme Zeeman met boeken and OBA live.