(Amsterdam, NL, 1986) is considered the great hope for Dutch literature. In 2011 he reveived De Tegel, a journalism prize, together with Daniël van der Meer for the interview series Het Decennium (The Decade). His 2010 debut novel Een Zondagsman (A Sunday Man), about a psychiatrist whose wife is in a coma, garnered widespread praise. His 2013 autobiographical novel De Vergeting (The Forgetting), about the day he lost his memory, was also enthusiastically received. 70 was published the same year, part three of a trilogy he wrote together with Jamal Ouariachi and David Pefko. In 2014, his hefty novel Het land 32 (Land 32) was both hailed and lambasted in the press. Together with his younger brother Thomas, he then wrote the thriller Ultimatum. His latest work, Een verlate reis (A Belated Trip), is an account of his visit to Auschwitz. In 2015, for De Volkskrant newsaper, he produced an interview series about the world of the unemployed and a reportage of his visit to Dutch troops in Mali.

(The Netherlands, 1960) is a literary critic, writer, curator, interviewer, debate leader and "ambassador between France and the Netherlands in the field of literature", as a French ambassador once said. She has been writing about literature for some 30 years, mainly for the NRC daily. She published books on French and European literature, on Hella S. Haasse and Cees Nooteboom. Her In de voetsporen van mijn grootvader (2021) is an autobiographical search for her literary genes. Before that, she published Met Parijse pen. Literaire omzwervingen (in collaboration with photographer Bart Koetsier, 2020), which takes readers to Paris for walks in the footsteps of famous Dutch and French writers. She was joint artistic curator of the Netherlands' Guest of Honour role at the 2024 Leipzig Book Fair with German journalist Bettina Baltschev.

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