Cees Nooteboom, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Cees Nooteboom

Dutch writer

Date of Birth: 31-Jul-1933

Place of Birth: The Hague, County of Holland, Netherlands

Profession: prose, writer, poet, translator, journalist, literary critic, novelist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Cees Nooteboom (Dutch pronunciation: [se?s no?t?bo?m]; born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, poet, and journalist.
After the attention received by his novel Rituelen (Rituals (1980), which received the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press of the United States.
LSU Press published his first two novels in English in the following years, as well as other works through 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.