author
Frederik van Eeden
1860–1932
A Dutch writer and psychiatrist, he brought psychological depth and moral searching into fiction that still feels vivid today. He is best remembered for the dreamlike classic The Little Johannes and the powerful novel Van de koele meren des doods.
5 Audiobooks
The Quest The authorized translation from the Dutch of De kleine Johannes
by Frederik van Eeden
Little Johannes
by Frederik van Eeden
De kleine Johannes
by Frederik van Eeden
Dante en Beatrice, en andere verzen
by Frederik van Eeden
The Bride of Dreams
by Frederik van Eeden
About the author
Born in Haarlem in 1860, Frederik van Eeden studied medicine and went on to work as a physician and psychiatrist while building a major literary career. He became a leading figure among the Dutch "Tachtigers," the influential group of writers connected with the magazine De Nieuwe Gids.
His writing often joined imagination, inner life, and social idealism. Alongside poetry and essays, he wrote novels that made him widely known, especially The Little Johannes and Van de koele meren des doods. He is also remembered beyond literature for introducing the term "lucid dream" in the early 20th century.
Van Eeden spent much of his life searching for better ways of living, both personally and socially, and that restless, humane curiosity runs through his work. He died in Bussum in 1932.