Hermine de Graaf (13 March 1951 – 24 November 2013) was a Dutch novelist. De Graaf studied Dutch 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 ...

and worked as a teacher in Venray. Her debut as a writer was in 1984 with the publication of ''Een kaart, niet het gebied'', a collection of ten short stories. In 1988 De Graaf won the

Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs {{short description, Dutch literary award The Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize or F. Bordewijk-prijs is a literary award, presented annually by the Jan Campert Foundation to the author of the best Dutch prose book. The prize was established in 1948 as the ...

for her novel ''De regels van het huis''.

References

1951 births 2013 deaths Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize winners People from Oldambt (municipality) 20th-century Dutch novelists Dutch women novelists 20th-century women writers 20th-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-writer-stub