Gerry Sajet’s four crime in 2001. Corine Kisling
novels are also prized writes both young adult
for her everyday realism. fiction and crime, winning
Another female/male the prize for debut thriller
partnership, Wendela de with her first crime novel.
Vos and Atie Vogelenzang, Chris Rippen, noted short
writing as Tupla Mourits, story writer (see below),
won the award for the made his debut as a
best crime fiction debut crime novelist in 1988,
in 2005. A talent to watch, winning the Golden Noose in 1992. Jac.Toes
Eva Maria Staal (a pseudonym) won the crime has written novels featuring De Wacht and
fiction debut award in 2007 with a book about Benter, a journalist and a lawyer. In 1998,
an arms dealer, drawing on her background in he won the Golden Noose with Foto-finish, a
that industry ‘psychological’ action thriller. His latest book is
Male writers include the intriguing non-
co-written with German author Thomas Hoeps.
mainstream Hilbert Kuik. Once a doctor in
Uganda, his novels, not all crime, sometimes
HISTORICAL CRIME FICTION
feature African backgrounds.
Historian Ashe Stil (1953)
writes crime fiction
FACTION novels featuring Willem
Key amongst the 1980s
Lootsman, a real-life
writers, and exemplifying
commissioner of the
the shift towards more
Amsterdam harbour
issue-orientated fiction is
police in the 17th
Tomas Ross (pseudonym
century. In 2007, Wouter
of Willem Hoogendoorn).
van Mastricht produced
A founding father of
the first in a series of crime novels also set
both the GNM and the
in the 17th century featuring Evan Sharpe, an
Golden Noose, he has
English translator in the Dutch army.
written more than faction
thrillers and has won the Golden Noose three
SHORT STORIES
times, in 2003 for “De zesde mei” (The Sixth
Chris Rippen is one of the few Dutch crime
of May), about the murder of Pim Fortuyn.
fiction writers who also writes short stories,
Jacob Vis‘s books featuring policeman Ben van
with a collection published in 1995. He has
Arkel have been nominated four times for the
published short stories in Spain, Germany, the
Golden Noose. His latest book is non-fiction; it
United States and Japan.
is a plea for a for a man imprisoned for twenty
years for a murder he didn’t commit. He says.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE
Ex-crime fiction critic René Appel is a two-
time Golden Noose winner, in 1991 and again
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