Margot Dijkgraaf is a literary critic (NRC Handelsblad, Dutch national newspaper), author, interviewer and curator of (inter-) national literary events. She was the Director of the Centre Français du Livre at the French Cultural Institute in Amsterdam, as well as of the Academic-Cultural Centre SPUI25. Ten years ago she initiated the European Literature Prize in The Netherlands, which is now an important prize for European literature translated into Dutch. Her published works include: Europe’s pen (2006), French-Language Literature of Today (2003), Mirror Image and Shadow Play: the Works of Hella S. Haasse (2014), Reading in France: A Literary Tour de France (2018) ; They spoke up. Female rebels of French Literature (2020) and With Parisian pen. Literary wanderings in Paris (with photographer Bart Koetsier).
