(Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1952). Tralievader (± Prison Father, 1991) was her first novella. Jewish history and culture play an important role in her work. Twee koffers vol (Left Luggage) has been made into a film by Jeroen Krabbé. De grauwe minnaar (The Grey Lover) was nominated for the European Prize of Literature in 1997.
(WN 1998)

(Marken, 1958-2009) was a poet, a writer and a commentator, with a regular column on the Forum page and the book pages of the Volkskrant. Zeeman was the editor of the arts section of the Volkskrant and from 2006-2007 its Rome correspondent. In 2006 he and the writer Abdelkader Benali published an exchange of letters, exchanging ideas on politics, life, love and literature. In 2002 Zeeman received the Gouden Ganzenveer (Golden Goose Quill) for his merits for Dutch literature. Zeeman became well-known in the 1990s as the host of his monthly book programme 'Late at night after a short walk', later to be renamed 'Zeeman with books'. In 1991 he published his first volume of poetry, Beeldenstorm (Iconoclasm), winning him the C. Buddingh Prize. His second volume Verhoudingen (Relationships) appeared in 1995. In the same year he published short stories entitled De Verduistering (The Darkening). He died in 2009.

(Johannesburg, 1929) grew up in South-Africa, but he lives in the United Kingdom since 1954. He write novels, short stories, essays and poetry. He is an emeritus professor of English Literature. In his novel Heshels Rijk (Heshel’s Empire) he searches for his grandfather, a rabbi in a Latvian village, whose death cleared the way for the family’s move to South-Africa, through which they escaped from the holocaust.