Bas Heijne


Bastiaan Johan "Bas" Heijne is a Dutch writer and translator.

Early life and education

Bastiaan Johan Heijne was born in Nijmegen in the Netherlands on 9 January 1960. He studied English language and literature at the University of Amsterdam.

Career

Heijne published in De Tijd, NRC Handelsblad, HP, De Groene Amsterdammer, and Vrij Nederland. Since 1991, he works for NRC Handelsblad. He translated works by E.M. Forster and Evelyn Waugh. Heijne gave the 2005 Mosse Lecture, titled De eeuwige homo.
Heijne was awarded the Henriette Roland Holst Prize for the book Hollandse toestanden , a collection of his columns from NRC Handelsblad. In 2014, he won the J. Greshoff Prize for his essay Angst en schoonheid, on the Dutch writer Louis Couperus. In 2017, he has received the P. C. Hooft Award for his non-fiction oeuvre.