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Cees Nooteboom

1933 – 2026 · aged 93

Dutch writer (1933–2026)

Born
31 Jul 1933 · The Hague
Died
11 Feb 2026 · Sant Lluís
Part ofNetherlands9 CE – todayKingdom of the Netherlands1772 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 107 years
  1. 31 Jul 1933BornBorn in The Hague
  2. 1957AwardAnne Frank Prize
  3. 1960AwardANV-Visser Neerlandia prize for drama
  4. 1960AwardHerman Gorterprijs
  5. 1963AwardLucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogt award
  6. 1965AwardHerman Gorterprijs
  7. 1978AwardJan Campert Prize for poetry
  8. 1981AwardFerdinand Bordewijk Prize
  9. 1982AwardCestoda price
  10. 1985AwardMultatuli Award
  11. 1992AwardConstantijn Huygens Prize
  12. 2001AwardCharlemagne Medal for European Media
  13. 2003AwardAustrian State Prize for European Literature
  14. 11 Feb 2026DiedDied in Sant Lluís

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1933 – 2026).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

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.

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