Luuc Kooijmans
Historian Luuc Kooijmans is the author of Friendship (1997), a highly acclaimed study of the role of friendship in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch society that was short-listed for the prestigious Generale Bank Prize for Literature, as well as Love on Order (2000) and The Artist of Death (2004). In 2004 he was awarded the Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation Humanities Prize for his oeuvre.