Tim Krabbé

Tim Krabbé

Birth : 1943-04-13, Amsterdam

History

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 Guardian's Matt Seaton wrote: "Nothing better is ever likely to be written on the subjective experience of cycle-racing". 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 co-wrote 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 U.S. in 2000.

Profile

Tim Krabbé

Movies

The Cave
Bartender
Psychological thriller. Geography teacher smuggles a case of heroin for a friend.
The Cave
Screenplay
Psychological thriller. Geography teacher smuggles a case of heroin for a friend.
The Vanishing
Novel
The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.
The Vanishing
Screenplay
A man embarks on an increasingly obsessive search for his girlfriend after she disappears without a trace during a romantic summer getaway to France.
The Vanishing
Novel
A man embarks on an increasingly obsessive search for his girlfriend after she disappears without a trace during a romantic summer getaway to France.
Red Desert Penitentiary
Story
Hollywood movie making types are spoofed.
Flanagan
Novel
Paul Flanagan is released from jail after serving for 8 years. He only has two things on his mind. First: to retrieve the money from the robbery he was convicted for. Secondly: to get revenge on his partners in crime (his half-brother Paul and his ex-lover Cathy), who got away Scot free and never once visited him in jail.