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Cees Nooteboom
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Dutch writer (1933–2026)
Cees Nooteboom was a Dutch author, poet, and essayist born in 1933 who became one of the Netherlands' most acclaimed and internationally recognized literary figures. His work, known for its philosophical depth and lyrical prose, explored themes of identity, memory, and human experience across novels, poetry collections, and essays that gained him a devoted readership worldwide.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 82
Top works
- La nuit Viennent les renards
- Hotel nómada
- Hotel nómada
- Sidewalks
- Op reis
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Netherlands
- Active from
- 1933-07-31
- Active to
- 2026-02-11
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 40
- Total plays
- 809
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Room-temperature transistor based on a single carbon nanotube
· 1998 · cited 4,805x
- A Novel User-Friendly Score (HAS-BLED) To Assess 1-Year Risk of Major Bleeding in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation
· 2010 · cited 3,855x
- A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary
· 2013 · cited 3,282x
- Nomenclature of Systemic Vasculitides
· 1994 · cited 2,996x
- Identification of the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA2
· 1995 · cited 2,732x
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Quotes
- “Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases. (Page 1)”
- “It is a peculiarity of time that in retrospect it appears so compact, an indivisible solid object, a dish with only one smell and one flavor. (Page 4)”
- “From the number of self-murderers he had known-you had to put it that way, for the fact that someone died rounded off your knowledge of that person, if only because he or she could no longer present you with surprises-he was able to conclude that his circle of acquaintance must consist of a thousand people. If he were to invite all these voluntary dead to tea, two boxes of cream cakes from Berkhof's would scarcely suffice. (Page 20)”
- “It would be like this when you were really old-a city full of imaginary houses and women, rooms and girls. (Page 125)”
- “I had breezed home on the wings of five gins.”
- “My tears are only triggered by kitsch.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom , ( 1933-07-31 ) 31 July 1933, The Hague , Netherlands
- Died
- 11 February 2026 (2026-02-11) (aged 92), Sant Lluís , Balearic Islands, Spain
- Occupation
- Novelist poet journalist
- Language
- Dutch
- Nationality
- Dutch
- Period
- 1954–2025
- Notable works
- Rituals ( Rituelen , 1980) The Following Story ( Het volgende verhaal , 1991)
- Notable awards
- Pegasus Prize Prix Formentor
- Spouse
- Fanny Lichtveld ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1957 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1964 )
- Partner
- Liesbeth List (1965–1979)
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.ceesnooteboom.com
- Image
- Cees Nooteboom (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1933-07-31
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- birth name
- Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom
- date of death
- 2026-02-11
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Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Cees Nooteboom, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Article
Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom ( Dutch pronunciation: [seːs ˈnoːtəboːm]; 31 July 1933 – 11 February 2026) was a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel Rituals (Rituelen, 1980), 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 (LSU 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 (now Houghton Mifflin 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.