Cees Nooteboom

Cees Nooteboom
Nooteboom in 2011
Born	Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom (1933-07-31) 31 July 1933 (age 91) The Hague, Netherlands
Occupation	Novelist, poet, journalist
Language	Dutch
Nationality	Dutch
Period	1954–present
Notable works	Rituelen (Rituals, 1980); The Following Story (Het volgende verhaal, 1991)
Notable awards	Pegasus Prize; Prix Formentor
Spouse	Fanny Lichtveld (1957–1964)
Partner	Liesbeth List (1965–1979)
Website
www.ceesnooteboom.com
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Cees Nooteboom (Dutch pronunciation: [seːs ˈnoːtəboːm]; born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel Rituelen (Rituals, 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 has won numerous literary awards and has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.^[1]