Vincent Bijlo Author

Vincent Bijlo is a Dutch stand-up comedian, columnist, musician and author.From 1985 to 1988, he studied Dutch language and literature at the University of Utrecht, and in 1988 he won the public's prize and the best personality prize at the Cabaret Festival in Leiden.This was the start of Bijlo's successful career as a stand-up comedian. He wrote many theatre shows, from Made in Braille in 1989 to his current tour of Het nieuwe nu (The New Present). In 2016, he appears together with The Rosettis, his wife Mariska Reijmerink is one of its members, in Op Woeste Hoogte (Wuthering Heights), a musical theatre production about the Bront family.Vincent is a well-known radio presenter and columnist. Nowadays, he writes every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday a column for the Algemeen Dagblad, one of the Dutch national newspapers.Dutch publishing house De Arbeiderspers published his four novels: Het instituut in 1998, Achttienhoog in 2001, De woordvoerder in 2003 and De Ottomaanse herder in 2009.Because of his appearances in the theatre, on radio and TV, and through his columns and novels, Vincent Bijlo has become a household name in the Netherlands.