Background
Peeters grew up in Nijmegen but moved, with his parents, to Amsterdam at age 14.
Peeters grew up in Nijmegen but moved, with his parents, to Amsterdam at age 14.
University of Amsterdam.
From 1987 to 1992 he was a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam.
As a literary critic, Peeters, whose allegiance is with the writers and critics associated with Forum from the 1930s and the De Revisor from the 1980s, is well known as an opponent of postmodernism. He published a pamphlet on the subject in 1986 and the following year participated in a well-publicized public debate with Christel van Boheemen.