Real name: Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom

Writer, born 31 July 1933 in Den Haag, Netherlands. Did some songwriting during the 1960s and 1970s for his then-partner Liesbeth List.

Cees Nooteboom (Dutch pronunciation: [seːs noːtəboːm]; born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel Rituelen (Rituals, 1980), which received the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press of the United States. LSU Press published his first two novels in English in the following years, as well as other works through 1990. Harcourt (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and Grove Press have since published some of his works in English.

Nooteboom has won numerous literary awards and has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.