Cees Nooteboom

Cees Nooteboom was a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist whose novel Rituals won the Pegasus Prize. His books include All Souls' Day, In the Dutch Mountains, Lost Paradise and The Following Story, which range from literary fiction to travel writing and magical realism. Born in 1933, Nooteboom died in 2026, and he was mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.