Background
Olde Heuvelt was born in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Olde Heuvelt was born in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
He studied English language and American Literature at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and at the University of Ottawa in Canada, where he lived for half a year.
In many interviews, he recalled that the literary heroes of his childhood were Roald Dahl and Stephen King, who created a love for grim and dark fiction. He later discovered the works of a wider range of contemporary writers like Jonathan Safran Foer, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Neil Gaiman and Yann Martel, whom he calls his greatest influences. Olde Heuvelt wrote his debut novel De Onvoorziene at the age of sixteen.
lieutenant was published with a small press in 2002, followed in 2004 by PhantasAmnesia, a 600-page novel in which he combined horror with humor and satire.
This drew the attention of Jacques Post, publisher with Luitingh-Sijthoff. Olde Heuvelt was the first Dutch author Post published with Luitingh-Sijthoff.
After several of his stories were translated into English, Olde Heuvelt was invited to be a panelist at the British Eastercon (2008, 2012), World Horror Convention in Brighton (2010) and Worldcon in Chicago (2012). The same story was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2013.
In April, 2013, Tor Books released his story "The Ink Readers of Doi Saket" in e-book
2005 Paul Harland Prize (Debut Prize) for De kronieken van een weduwnaar.