Joris van Casteren

Joris van Casteren is a renowned Dutch literary journalist, known for his dry, factual style and original perspective. His breakthrough came with Lelystad (2008), a coming-of-age story. Other works include Het been in de IJssel (2013), Mensen op Mars (2016), and Moeders Lichaam (2019). Since 2018, he has coordinated “De Eenzame Uitvaart,” honoring Amsterdam’s unclaimed dead by researching their lives and commissioning poets to write and recite poems at their funerals, sharing these stories in a national newspaper.