Gerrit Krol
Despite Gerrit Krol’s (1934-2013) work as computer programmer and systems analyst at Shell and the Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM), he has written an imposing and varied oeuvre of nineteen novels, several collection short stories and poetry as well as collections of essays and columns on science, philosophy and literature. Krol received the Multatuli prize for his novel De weg naar Sacramento (‘The Road To Sacramento’, 1977), and for his collection of essays De mechanica van het liegen (‘The Mechanics of Lying’, 1985) he received the Busken Huet Prize. He received the Constantijn Huygens Award in 1986 for his entire opus and in 2001 again with the P.C. Hooft Award.