About Cees Nooteboom
Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom was a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel Rituals, which won the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English-language edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press of the United States. LSU Press published his two earlier novels in English in the following years, as well as other works up until 1990. Harcourt and Grove Press have since published some of his works in English. Nooteboom won numerous literary awards and was mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. After his first job with a bank in Hilversum, Nooteboom travelled throughout Europe. In 1957 Nooteboom was hired as a sailor on a freighter to Suriname in order to earn money and ask for the hand of his first wife, Fanny Lichtveld. On 2 September 2019, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from UCL, London.
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