Cees Nooteboom’s novel Rituelen (Rituals) won both the Bordewijk Prize and the Pegasus Prize for Literature. His Berlijnse notities won the German 3rd of October Literature Prize. In 1993, he won the Aristeion European Prize for Literature for Het volgende verhaal, the novel that signalled his international breakthrough with translations in over 20 languages. In 2004, Nooteboom published Paradijs verloren.

Among his works available in English are the novels All Souls Day and The Following Story, and Roads to Santiago: A Modern-Day Pilgrimage Through Spain.

Last year, Nooteboom received the Netherlands’ P. C. Hooft Award.