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13 unusual facts about NRC Handelsblad


Auke Hulst

From 1998 on Hulst has been working for a number of prominent Dutch and Belgian newspapers and magazines, like Vrij Nederland, Esquire, Knack Focus, NRC Handelsblad, De Groene Amsterdammer, and De Standaard.

Derk Jan Eppink

In 1987, Derk Jan Eppink joined the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad where he was assigned to the foreign desk.

Dichter des Vaderlands

This position was created by the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, the Nederlandse Programma Stichting and the foundation Poetry International in January 2000.

Edmund Burke Foundation

Those newspapers include De Telegraaf, de Volkskrant, NRC Handelsblad, het Parool, Trouw, het Nederlands Dagblad, and weekly magazines such as HP/De Tijd, Elsevier, De Groene Amsterdammer.

Geert R. A. Kliphuis

Working as a street-musician in Brussels, the former West-Berlin, Barcelona, Hamburg, London and Paris during the 1970s and 1980s, Kliphuis wrote an extensive series of short travel stories for NRC Handelsblad, the national newspaper published in Rotterdam.

Jelmer Steenhuis

Steenhuis is best known for his weekly puzzles in the newspaper NRC Handelsblad and magazine Vrij Nederland.

Joost Zwagerman

Joost Zwagerman is also active as a columnist for the Dutch newspapers previously for the Volkskrant (1998–2002) and since 2001 for NRC Handelsblad.

Karel van Wolferen

In 2005, together with NRC Handelsblad reporter Jan Sampiemon, Van Wolferen wrote Een keerpunt in de vaderlandse geschiedenis (Dutch: "A turning point in the history of the fatherland").

In 1972 he became a correspondent for the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad, reporting from many countries in Asia.

Marcel Wouda

Six months later a journalist from Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad, Mark Hoogstad, wrote a book describing the resurrection of Dutch swimming at the hand of Wouda's career.

Nahum Galmor

According to the Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad the Israeli prosecutor does not have any proof that the money for the purchase of Thermphos was Gaydamak's.

Silent lotus

One of his earliest lithographs was commissioned by the art editor of the NRC Handelsblad and the entire edition was sold out in less than a week.

Upload Cinema

The editorial team of Upload Cinema consists of its originators Dagan Cohen and Barbara de Wijn, and film enthusiasts such as editors of the NRC newspaper and Filmkrant.


De Avonden

In 2007 De avonden was named as one of the Top 10 Dutch language novels of all time by readers of the newspaper NRC Handelsblad.