Bas Heijne

Bastiaan Johan "Bas" Heijne (born 9 January 1960) is a Dutch writer and translator.

Early life and education
Bastiaan Johan Heijne was born in Nijmegen in the Netherlands on 9 January 1960. He studied English language and literature at the University of Amsterdam.

Career
Heijne published in De Tijd, NRC Handelsblad, HP, De Groene Amsterdammer, and Vrij Nederland. Since 1991, he works for NRC Handelsblad. He translated works by E.M. Forster and Evelyn Waugh, and his own writings had features of their decadent style. Heijne gave the 2005 Mosse Lecture, titled De eeuwige homo (The eternal gay).

Heijne was awarded the Henriette Roland Holst Prize (named after the Dutch poet Henriette Roland Holst) for the book Hollandse toestanden ("Dutch affairs") (2005), a collection of his columns from NRC Handelsblad. In 2014, he won the J. Greshoff Prize (named after the Dutch journalist, poet and literary critic Jan Greshoff) for his essay Angst en schoonheid ("Fear and beauty"), on the Dutch writer Louis Couperus. In 2017, he has received the P. C. Hooft Award for his non-fiction oeuvre.