Toine Heijmans
From 16 September to 17 October 2022
Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti
Origine
The Netherlands
Biography
The Dutch writer and journalist Toine Heijmans was born in 1969. He lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied history, and he is a columnist for the Dutch daily newspaper De Volkskrant. He has published several books of non-fiction and three widely translated novels, and has been awarded a number of prizes, including the Prix Médicis étranger for En mer (Christian Bourgois, 2013), the French translation of Op zee (Atlas-Contact, 2013). Pristina (Atlas-Contact, 2015) was nominated for the 2022 Euregio Literature Prize. His latest novel, Zuurstofschuld (Uitgeverij Plum, 2021), is being translated into French, Italian, German and Spanish.
