14 Facts About Jeroen Brouwers

Jeroen Godfried Marie Brouwers was a Dutch writer.

From 1964 to 1976 Brouwers worked as an editor at Manteau publishers in Brussels.

Jeroen Brouwers won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 1989 for De zondvloed, the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1993 for his collected works, and in 1995 the Prix Femina etranger for International works for his book Bezonken rood.

Jeroen Brouwers was born on 30 April 1940 in Batavia, the capital of the former Dutch East Indies.

Jeroen Brouwers was the fourth child of Jacques Theodorus Maria Brouwers, an accountant in a firm of architects, and Henriette Elisabeth Maria van Maaren, daughter of the musician Leo van Maaren.

In 1986 Jeroen Brouwers wrote the autobiographical novel Bezonken Rood, about the lifelong effects of this Japanese internment.

Jeroen Brouwers's mother returned, with her children, to the Netherlands in 1947.

Jeroen Brouwers was sent there because he was considered in need of additional psychological care.

Jeroen Brouwers had difficulties adjusting to the Dutch way of life after life in Indonesia.

Jeroen Brouwers became an editor for the Romance magazine, which was later renamed Avenue.

Jeroen Brouwers has had three children: two sons, Daan Leonard and Pepijn, and a daughter Anne.

Since 1992 Jeroen Brouwers has been included in the Orde van de Vlaamse Leeuw and since 1993 knight in the Belgian crown order.

In spring 2021, Jeroen Brouwers announced he would stop writing books and considered himself to be retired.

On 11 May 2022, Jeroen Brouwers' publisher announced that he had died after a brief period of illness.