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3 unusual facts about Tim Krabbé


Meyrueis

Meyrueis is the scene of the sprint finish of an amateur 1977 cycle race, La Tour de Mont Aigoual, which is the subject of the novel The Rider (De Renner) by the Dutch author Tim Krabbé.

Mont Aigoual

The Tour of Mont Aigoual is the semi-fictional cycle race in the book The Rider by Tim Krabbé.

Tim Krabbé

He 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 Guardian's Matt Seaton wrote: "Nothing better is ever likely to be written on the subjective experience of cycle-racing".



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