Background
Connie Palmen was born on November 25, 1955 in Sint Odiliënberg, Roerdalen, Netherlands.
2003
Antwerpen, Belgium
Dutch author and writer Connie Palmen poses during a Portrait Session held on February 14, 2003 in Antwerpen, Belgium. Photo by Ulf Andersen
2003
Antwerpen, Belgium
Dutch author and writer Connie Palmen poses during a Portrait Session held on February 14, 2003 in Antwerpen, Belgium. Photo by Ulf Andersen
2016
Cologne, Germany
Dutch author Connie Palmen arrives on stage for a reading at the Lit.Cologne international literature festival in Cologne, Germany, 10 March 2016. Photo by Henning Kaiser
2016
Cologne, Germany
Dutch authors Saskia De Coster (L) and Connie Palmen (R) sit on stage during a reading at the Lit.Cologne international literature festival in Cologne, Germany, 10 March 2016. Photo by Henning Kaiser
2016
Frankfurt Book Fair 2016. Connie Palmen, Dutch writer. Photo by Ulrich Baumgarten
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Connie Palmen studied literature and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.
(Marie Deniet, a philosophy student, tries to understand t...)
Marie Deniet, a philosophy student, tries to understand the laws under which seven men, an artist, a priest, an epileptic, a philosopher, an astrologer, a physicist, and a pychiatrist, have chosen to live.
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1991
Connie Palmen was born on November 25, 1955 in Sint Odiliënberg, Roerdalen, Netherlands.
Connie Palmen studied literature and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.
Connie Palmen debuted with the novel De wetten (1991). It was published in the United Kingdom and in the United States as The Laws (1993). Her second novel was De vriendschap (1995), published in the United Kingdom and the United States as The Friendship (2000). In 1999 Palmen wrote the novella De erfenis (The Heritage), released in a print of 750.000 copies as the gift in the so-called Dutch Week of the Book.
She wrote the moving autobiografical novel I.M about the love for this enfant terrible. It was released in 1998 with a first print of 100.000 copies and became a great success both in The Netherlands as in Germany. With the novels Geheel de Uwe (All Yours 2002), and Lucifer (2007) she explored the effect of gossip and biographical storytelling on the lives of people.
In her Logboek van een onbarmhartig jaar (Journal of a Merciless Year, 2011) she ruthlessly analysed the mourning about the lost of a beloved one. In September 2015 Connie Palmen published her latest novel Jij zegt het (You said it).
(Marie Deniet, a philosophy student, tries to understand t...)
1991Connie Palmen had a relationship with the well-known journalist, radiomaster and televisionhost Ischa Meijer in the years preceding his sudden death in 1995. From 1998 she lived with D66 politician Hans van Mierlo, and the couple married on November 11, 2009. Hans van Mierlo died on March 11, 2010.