Renate Maria Dorrestein (25 January 1954 – 4 May 2018[1]) was a Dutch writer, journalist and
feminist.
She started working as a junior journalist for the Dutch magazines Libelle and Panorama. During the period 1977 - 1982 she published in Het Parool, Viva, Onkruid and Opzij. Dorrestein published her first novel (Buitenstaanders) in 1983. Her sister's suicide had a great influence on her books.[2] Dorrestein won the Annie Romein prize in 1993 for her complete body of work.[3] A lot of Dorrestein's books were translated, and they were sold in 14 countries.
In September 2017 Dorrestein publicly announced that she was suffering from
esophageal cancer. She died on 4 May 2018 at the age of 64.[4][1]
2017 – Liever horen we onszelf (reissue of the audiobook from 2014,
ISBN9789021408170)
2018 – Dagelijks werk - een schrijversleven ("literary autobiography" with various texts written by Dorrestein in the course of her life, some of them published before, with a newly added introduction for each.
ISBN9789057599132)
^Algemeen Dagblad, 23 February 2013, "Paspoort Renate Dorrestein - De winst van iedere crisis is dat alle flauwekul van je afvalt" (in Dutch: author Inge van den Blink)