Tim Krabbé
Tim Krabbé (b. 1943) earned international fame with 'Het gouden ei' (The Vanishing, 1984), which as a film became a cult classic.
His 1978 novel De renner (The Rider) is an international classic of sports literature. From Krabbé’s writing it is apparent that the author himself is a master of the game of chess. His work has been translated into many languages.
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The Rider
Tim Krabbé’s 'De renner' is to Dutch literature what Paris-Roubaix is to bicycle road-racing: a royal classic. It’s a ride to the sun, and a ride to Zen – the definitive abc of sports, an encyclopedia, a literary masterpiece, an adventure novel and bicycling odyssey all rolled into one. Perhaps the most surprising thing about De renner is that it covers only 129 pages, yet cries out to be read again and again.
The Vanishing
With his Nordic cousins Henning Mankell and Karin Fossum, both currently enjoying worldwide success, Tim Krabbé shares a Northern European taste for depressive heroes and sinister scenarios. Het gouden ei (The Vanishing, 1984), already familiar to those who have seen either of the novel’s cinematic incarnations, both of which are cult classics, is no less chilling now than it was at the time of its original publication in 1984.