Bregje Hofstede is a Dutch journalist, columnist and writer. Her debut novel The Sky Above Paris has been translated into German and Danish, and has been nominated for the Libris Literature Prize the Anton Wachter Prize and the Golden Book Owl, among others. Since then, she has published an essay collection, The Rediscovery of the Body: About the Burnout (2016) and Drift (2018). Hofstede studied art history and French in Utrecht, Paris and Berlin, and now writes for various newspapers and literary magazines, including as a correspondent for New Feminism at De Correspondent. She is a member of the feminist action group De Bovengrondse. She will be a writer in residence in Norwich in autumn 2019.