Bastiaan Johan "Bas" Heijne (; born 9 January 1960) is a Dutch writer and translator.

Early life and education

Bastiaan Johan Heijne was born in

Nijmegen Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about 6 ...

in the

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on 9 January 1960. He studied English language and literature at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

.G.J. van Bork,
Heijne, Bas
(in Dutch), ''Schrijvers en dichters'', 2006. Retrieved 21 July 2014.

Career

Heijne published in ''

De Tijd ''De Tijd'' (, ''The Times'') is a Belgian newspaper that mainly focuses on business and economics. It is printed on salmon pink paper since May 2009, following the example of its colleagues ''Financial Times'', ''Het Financieele Dagblad'', '' FT ...

'', ''

NRC Handelsblad ''NRC'', previously called ''NRC Handelsblad'' (), is a daily morning newspaper published in the Netherlands by NRC Media. It is generally accepted as a newspaper of record in the Netherlands. History ''NRC Handelsblad'' was first published on 1 ...

'', '' HP'', ''

De Groene Amsterdammer ''De Groene Amsterdammer'' is an independent Dutch weekly news magazine published in Amsterdam and distributed throughout the Netherlands. It is conventionally considered to be one of the four major weeklies, alongside ''HP/De Tijd'', ''Vrij Neder ...

'', and ''

Vrij Nederland ''Vrij Nederland'' (Free Netherlands) is a Dutch magazine, established during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II as an underground newspaper. It has since grown into a magazine. The originally weekly and now monthly magaz ...

''. Since 1991, he works for ''NRC Handelsblad''. He translated works by

E.M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author, best known for his novels, particularly ''A Room with a View'' (1908), ''Howards End'' (1910), and ''A Passage to India'' (1924). He also wrote numerous short stori ...

and

Evelyn Waugh Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires ''Decli ...

. Heijne gave the 2005

Mosse Lecture The Foundation George Mosse Fund of the University of Amsterdam (Stichting George Mosse Fonds van de Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a Dutch foundation (stichting) that aims to promote gay and lesbian studies. It was founded in 2001 at the Univer ...

, titled ''De eeuwige homo'' (''The eternal gay''). Heijne was awarded the Henriette Roland Holst Prize (named after the Dutch poet

Henriette Roland Holst Henriette Goverdine Anna "Jet" Roland Holst-van der Schalk (24 December 1869 – 21 November 1952) was a Dutch poet and communist. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The poet Adriaan Roland Holst (1888–1976), nicknamed "the Du ...

) for the book ''Hollandse toestanden'' ("Dutch affairs") (2005), a collection of his columns from ''NRC Handelsblad''. In 2014, he won the J. Greshoff Prize (named after the Dutch journalist, poet and literary critic

Jan Greshoff Jan Greshoff (15 December 1888, Nieuw-Helvoet – 19 March 1971, Cape Town) was a Dutch journalist, poet, and literary critic. He was the 1967 recipient of the Constantijn Huygens Prize. Partial list of works * 1909 - ''Aan den verlaten vi ...

) for his essay ''Angst en schoonheid'' ("Fear and beauty"), on the Dutch writer

Louis Couperus Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (10 June 1863 – 16 July 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons and ske ...

. In 2017, he has received the

P. C. Hooft Award The P.C. Hooft Award (in Dutch: P.C. Hooft-prijs), inaugurated in 1948, is a Dutch-language literary lifetime-achievement award named after 17th-century Dutch poet and playwright Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft. The award is made annually. Background E ...

for his non-fiction oeuvre.Aleid Truijens,
Bas Heijne wint P.C. Hooft-prijs voor zijn beschouwend oeuvre
(in Dutch), ''

de Volkskrant ''de Volkskrant'' (; ''The People's Paper'') is a Dutch daily morning newspaper. Founded in 1919, it has a nationwide circulation of about 250,000. Formerly a leading centre-left Catholic broadsheet, ''de Volkskrant'' today is a medium-sized c ...

'', 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

Bibliography

* (1983) ''Laatste woorden'' (Last words) * (1987) ''Vreemde reis'' (Strange journey) * (1989) ''Heilige monsters'' (Holy monsters) * (1992) ''Suez'' * (1994) ''Vlees en bloed'' (Flesh and blood) * (1996) ''Het gezicht van Louis Couperus'' (The face of

) * (1999) ''De mens is zo'n breekbaar wezen'' (Man is such a fragile creature) * (2000) ''De wijde wereld'' (The wide world) * (2003) ''Van Gogh'' * (2003) ''Het verloren land'' (The lost country) * (2004) ''Tafelgesprekken'' (Table conversations) * (2004) ''De werkelijkheid'' (The reality) * (2005) ''Hollandse toestanden'' (Dutch affairs) * (2006) ''Zang'' (Singing) * (2006) ''Grote vragen'' (Big questions) * (2007) ''Onredelijkheid'' (Unreasonableness) * (2010) ''Harde liefde'' (Tough love) * (2011) ''Moeten wij van elkaar houden?'' (Do we have to love one another?) * (2011) ''Echt zien'' (Really seeing) * (2013) ''Angst en schoonheid'' (Fear and beauty) * (2016) ''Onbehagen'' (Discontent) * (2017) ''Staat van Nederland, een pleidooi'' (State of the Netherlands, a plea)

References

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