Hermine de Graaf | |
Birth Name: | Hermine Jonkers |
Birth Date: | 13 March 1951 |
Birth Place: | Winschoten |
Death Place: | Buinen |
Occupation: | writer |
Language: | Dutch |
Nationality: | NL |
Period: | 1984-2013 |
Genre: | novels, short stories |
Awards: | Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs |
Hermine de Graaf (13 March 1951 – 24 November 2013) was a Dutch novelist.[1] De Graaf studied Dutch language and literature at the University of Amsterdam and worked as a teacher in Venray. Her debut as a writer was in 1984 with the publication of Een kaart, niet het gebied, a collection of ten short stories. In 1988 De Graaf won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for her novel De regels van het huis.