(USA, 1988) is a journalist, writer and documentary maker. She worked as a columnist for NRC and as a Resistance Correspondent for De Correspondent. She has also worked as an editor and presenter at AT5, BNNVARA (Joop), Vrij Nederland, Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. Together with Hasna El Maroudi, Gargard is the founder of the feminist journalism platform Lilith Magazine. She is also co-founder of the LGBTI+ organisation Black Pride NL. The documentary Daddy and the Warlord, about her father and the Liberian civil wars, which she made in collaboration with Shamira Raphaëla, won a Gouden Kalf for Best Short Documentary in 2019. Gargard's book Drakendochter (Dragon Daughter) is about her family history, migration, politics and society. In 2022, her documentary Ga terug en haal het (VPRO) about the timelessness of black resistance in the Netherlands, Suriname and Curaçao was released. Her book Na verzet komt (r)evolutie (2025, also published in English as From Resistance to (R)evolution) is about how to unleash a personal and social (r)evolution.

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Instagram: @claricegargard

(Netherlands, 1958) has produced and presented the VPRO radio programme OVT since 2002, a two-hour show about the historical roots of current events as well as newly released historical books, films, commemorations, and anything else related to history. The show features live interviews, reportage, columns and a weekly documentary during the last half hour. He was already linked to OVT since 1992 as a programmer and previously freelanced for other national Dutch broadcasters such as VARA and IKON.

(Zeddam, NL, 1956) is a Dutch journalist, historian and radio presenter. He was founder and editor-in-chief of the Historical Newsletter and he worked for the University of Leiden newspaper Mare. Palm also writes for Trouw newspaper and the Groene Amsterdammer magazine. He has written books such as De vergeten geschiedenis van Nederland (The Forgotten History of The Netherlands); Oerend hard (Super Fast), about the musician Ben Jolink; and Moederkerk, de ondergang van rooms Nederland (Mother Church: The Decline of the Roman-Catholic Netherlands). After a Catholic upbringing he turned away from the religion. He was very active for years with the then-revolutionary SP socialist party. Among other things, he works for OVT, the history program of the VPRO public radio station.

(Netherlands, 1945) writes novels, stories, essays, lectures and columns with a strong historical bent. She debuted with 1987's Tine of de dalen waar het leven woont (Tine, or the Valleys Where Life Lives), a fictitious biography of 19th-century Dutch writer Multatuli's first wife. Her book De naam van de vader (The Name of the Father) won the 1994 Multatuli Prize. In 2002 she wrote Pelican Bay, about slavery in the Caribbean and the Netherlands. Her essay collection Schatplicht (Tribute) appeared in 2013, and her 2016 novel Aan het eind van de dag (At the End of the Day) is simultaneously a portrait of a career woman and a snapshot of the second half of the 20th century. De val van Thomas G. (The fall of Thomas G.) tells about the publisher of a controversial book. Noordervliet's body of work was awarded the 2018 Constantijn Huygens Prize.

(Ridderkerk, 1970) is a laywer who specialises in human rights violations and compensation for war victims. The dissertation Accountability of Armed Opposition Groups in International Law with which she obtained her PhD at the Erasmus University in 2000 was awarded the Max van der Stoel Human Rights Prize. She has been a partner at Prakken d'Oliveira Human Rights Laywers since 2005. Zegveld was also part-time professor of humanitarian war law at the University of Leiden from 2006 to 2013 and since 2013 is part-time professor of War Reparations at the University of Amsterdam. She is known, among other things, for assisting the relatives of war victims in the former Dutch East Indies.

(Amsterdam, 1955) is a journalist and author of literary and historical non-fiction. In 2005 she made her fiction debut with the collection of short stories Zwartzuur (Black Acid), which received good reviews and was the winner of the Vrouw&Kultuur Debuutprijs 2006. This success was followed by Timmerijes first novel De grote Joseph (The Great Joseph, 2010). She also published Slaapwandelen bij daglicht (Sleepwalking in daylight), Indisch zwijgen (I2013) and, together with Charles den Tex, Het vergeten verhaal van een unshakeable liefde in oorlogstijd (Finding Her, 2014). Her historical novel De mannen van Maria (Maria's Men, 2019) tells about a young woman married off in 1625 to the Dutch East Indies.

(Amersfoort) is a journalist and writer. She wrote family oriented non-fiction books such as Dochters van ver: belevenissen van een adoptiemoeder (Daughters from afar: experiences of an adoptive mother); Uit elkaar, een leven na de scheiding (A Life after Separation), and the biography Moscow Times. The Russian adventure of Derk Sauer and Ellen Verbeek. Together with Auke Kok she wrote Lisa & Lin, vijf weken terug in China (Lisa & Lin, Back in China for Five Weeks, 2009) about the visit to the Chinese children's homes of their daughters. In 2019 she made her debut as a novelist with Lichter dan ik (Lighter than me), inspired by the life of her Javanese great-great-grandmother who managed to escape from the class society.

(The Netherlands, 1980) is a poet and musician. His performances combine language, music and the bodily. Following his roots and family history, much of his work is related to the colonial past of the Netherlands and Indonesia, as well as the topics of belonging and displacement. His last poetry collection Handbook for the Displaced was awarded the Herman de Coninck prize and the J.C. Bloem poetry prize, and was translated into English and Indonesian. Several of his poems were screened in Manual for the Displaced, a poetry film project together with cinematographer Jeremy Flohr. Block also writes columns, teaches poetry and works as an editor for Dutch poetry magazine Awater.

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(Belgium, 1951) is a writer of poetry, novels, essays, plays, and short stories. He debuted in 1981 and has more than thirty books to his name, including prize-winning titles like the poetry collection Muziek voor de overtocht (Music for the Crossing, 1995) and the novels Gestolde wolken (Solidified Clouds, 1988) and Naar Merelbeke (To Merelbeke, 1994). His international breakthrough, the family saga Oorlog en terpentijn (War and Turpentine, 2013), sold over 250,000 copies and was published in 24 languages. The book is based on some writings that Hertmans received from his grandfather. The reconstruction of the story begins in about 1900 in a working-class Ghent neighbourhood and gets an unexpected twist during the Great War. Hertmans taught at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and has delivered lectures at universities around the world. He was awarded the Constantijn Huijgens Prize 2019 for his body of work.

(The Netherlands, 1982) is a poet, columnist, critic and presenter at literary events, including Writers Unlimited. For De steen vreest mij (2011), she was awarded the C. Buddingh’ Prize for the best poetry debut. Her collection Hogere natuurkunde (2019) is part travelogue, part myth and part testimony, and the outcome of conversations Deckwitz engaged in with individuals whose roots also trace back to the former Dutch East Indies. In 2022, Eerste hulp bij poëzie was published, an omnibus containing her collections Olijven moet je leren lezen (2020) and Dit gaat niet over grasmaaien (2021). Deckwitz writes columns for national daily newspaper NRC. In her NPO Luister podcast Poëzie vandaag, she presents a Dutch or translated poem every workday morning. She is one of three critics of podcast Boeken FM. Since Autumn 2025, she has been one of the presenters of Nooit meer Slapen, the VPRO's night-time cultural radio programme.

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(Netherlands, 1955) won much praise for his books about the njai, women in the Dutch East Indies who lived in concubinage and had children with Dutch men. He debuted in 2006 with the semi-autobiographical novel De ogen van Solo (Solo’s Eyes), dealing with the rootlessness of people from the Dutch East Indies. Gebleekte ziel (Bleached Soul, 2012) is a novel based on historical fact about the son of a Balinese nobleman sent to the Netherlands to be "bleached", to erase his indigenous identity. Daar werd wat gruwelijks verricht (Something Horrible Happened There) is a non-fiction book about the unknown history of slavery in the Dutch East Indies. In 2018 he published the documentary novel Het kind met Japanse ogen (The Child with Japanese Eyes), a personal quest and historical investigation into the life of his father.