Carel Peeters

Carel Peeters (born 5 June 1944 in Nijmegen) is one of the leading Dutch literary critics and in 2008 the Jacobson Award, awarded to "elderly" literati.

As a literary critic, Peeters, whose allegiance is with the writers and critics associated with Forum from the 1930s and the De Revisor from the 1980s, is well known as an opponent of postmodernism; he published a pamphlet on the subject in 1986 and the following year participated in a well-publicized public debate with Christel van Boheemen.