(Indonesia, 1933) is a strip cartoonist and illustrator. After art school in Bandung he came to the Netherlands in 1956 and started working with Toonder Studios. He drew for a girl's magazine, Tina. In 1970 Miep Diekmann asked him to illustrate her book Total loss, weet je wel. (Total Loss, You Know?). Before long he was drawing on a fulltime basis, illustrating the children's books of Guus Kuijer, Els Pelgrom, Sylvia Vanden Heede and Dolf Verroen, which won him three Gouden Penselen (golden pencils). Thé Tjong-Khing is a film buff, countless times he won in a famous Dutch film quiz. In 2005 he was recipient of the Woutertje Pieterse Prize and the Zilveren Penseel (silver pencil) for his pictuere book Waar is de taart? (Where is the Cake?), which he devised and drew. Since 2006 his older work is republished, among others the strip cartoon Arman & Ilva. In 2010 he was recipient of the Max Velthuijs Prize for his entire oeuvre and in 2011 the Dutch Literary Museum organised a special exhibition about his work.

(Amsterdam, NL 1955) writes for daily newspapers and mgazines, particularly about art, literature, upbringing and education. In 2012 she published a book about these topics. In it she sketches the dilemmas of modern parenthood. In her weekly column for Volkskrant too Truijens writes a lot about upbringing and education. She made her debut in 2004 with Geen nacht zonder (Not a Night without), about a four-year old girl suffering from leukemia and the impact it has of the family. This novel was translated in German. Her second novel Vriendendienst (Friendly Turn; 2007) is about a bunch of schoolfriends taking stock together around their fiftieth birthday. They are all traumatised by the early suicide of one of their friends. In 2011 her biography about the writer F.B. Hotz appeared, about whom she had already published in the 1990s. In 1997 she published a biography of the renowned Dutch writer Hella Haasse.

(The Netherlands, 1962) is a Dutch writer, screenwriter and visual artist. She made her debut in 1995 with the collection of short stories Begeerte (Desire), which was nominated for the AKO Literature Prize, the Anton Wachter Prize and the ECI Prize. The title story was awarded the Rabobank Spring Prize for Literature. Her first novel Gemis (1997) was nominated for the Libris Literature Prize. Her most recent book, Vallen is als vliegen (Falling is Like Flying, 2019), was shortlisted for both the 2019 Bookspot Literature Prize and the 2020 Libris Literature Prize. The novel was named the best Dutch-language novel of 2019 by NRC Handelsblad and Humo. Uphoff was editor of the literary magazine De Revisor and board member and president of PEN Netherlands. As a screenwriter, she wrote the feature film screenplay Een Groot Geweld (Topkapi Films).