Bas Heijne

Bastiaan Johan "Bas" Heijne (born 9 January 1960) 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, and his own writings had features of their decadent style.

Heijne was awarded the Henriette Roland Holst Prize (named after the Dutch poet Henriette Roland Holst) for the book Hollandse toestanden ("Dutch affairs") (2005), a collection of his columns from NRC Handelsblad. In 2017, he has received the P. C. Hooft Award for his non-fiction oeuvre.