Tim Krabbé

Tim Krabbé born April 13 1943 is a Dutch journalist novelist and chess player Once a competitive cyclist Krabbé is known to Dutch readers for his novel De Renner The Rider first published in 1978 and translated into English in 2002 of which The Guardians Matt Seaton wrote Nothing better is ever likely to be written on the subjective experience of cycleracing English readers know him primarily for The Vanishing Dutch Spoorloos the translation of his 1984 novel Het Gouden Ei The Golden Egg which was made into an acclaimed 1988 Dutch film for which Krabbé cowrote a script A poorly received American remake was made in 1993 In 1997 he published De grot translated as The Cave and published in the US in 2000