Cees Nooteboom

Biography

Cees Nooteboom was a renowned Dutch novelist, poet, and journalist born on July 31, 1933, in The Hague. He won the Anne Frank Prize for his first novel, Philip en de anderen, published in 1954, and went on to win the Pegasus Prize and Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize for his third novel, Rituelen, in 1980. Nooteboom's works have been translated into English and he was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.