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Cees Nooteboom


Born
in Den Haag, Netherlands
July 31, 1933

Died
February 11, 2026

Website

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Travel


Cees Nooteboom (born Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom) was a Dutch author. He has won the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren, the P.C. Hooft Award, the Pegasus Prize, the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for Rituelen, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Constantijn Huygens Prize, and has frequently been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.

His works include Rituelen (Rituals, 1980); Een lied van schijn en wezen (A Song of Truth and Semblance, 1981); Berlijnse notities (Berlin Notes, 1990); Het volgende verhaal (The Following Story, 1991); Allerzielen (All Souls' Day, 1998) and Paradijs verloren (Paradise Lost, 2004). (Het volgende verhaal won him the Aristeion Prize in 1993.) In 2005 he published "De ...more

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Average rating: 3.64 · 18,182 ratings · 2,342 reviews · 244 distinct works • Similar authors
Rituals
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3.68 avg rating — 3,706 ratings — published 1980 — 78 editions
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The Following Story
3.65 avg rating — 2,293 ratings — published 1991 — 64 editions
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All Souls' Day
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3.70 avg rating — 1,266 ratings — published 1998
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Roads to Santiago
3.77 avg rating — 995 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
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's Nachts komen de vossen
3.63 avg rating — 883 ratings — published 2009 — 24 editions
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Lost Paradise
3.42 avg rating — 920 ratings — published 2004 — 38 editions
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Cerchi infiniti. Viaggi in ...
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3.55 avg rating — 747 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions
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Philip en de anderen
3.39 avg rating — 645 ratings — published 1955
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In the Dutch Mountains: A N...
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3.50 avg rating — 568 ratings — published 1984 — 48 editions
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Il canto dell'essere e dell...
3.63 avg rating — 421 ratings — published 1981 — 21 editions
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“Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.”
― Cees Nooteboom
tags: conversation
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“Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.”
― Cees Nooteboom, Rituals
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“Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.”
― Cees Nooteboom
tags: fantastical-thinking, fantasy, language, night-thoughts, self-deception, self-knowledge, words
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De tunnel van Anna Woltz - 232 pagina's
 
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Liefde & Gelato van Jenna Evans Welch - 320 pagina's
 
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In de wildernis van John Muir - 197 pagina's
 
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New York Edward Rutherfurd - 862 pagina's
 
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Wildevrouw van Jeroen Olyslaegers - 416 pagina's
 
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Het derde geheim van Steve Berry - 351 pagina's
 
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Londen van Edward Rutherfurd - 832 pagina's
 
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De Parijzenaar van Isabella Hammad - 600 pagina's
 
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Hier van Richard McGuire - 308 pagina's
 
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