Hans Maarten van den Brink

Hans Maarten van den Brink (b .1956) has been Interim Director of Witte de With from 2005 to 2006. His previous posts have included director of the VPRO public broadcasting corporation, foreign correspondent for the Dutch broadsheet NRC Handelsblad in Spain and the United States, and editor-in-chief of its weekly Cultural Supplement. His writing has been published in various newspapers and weeklies at home and abroad, and he has authored about a dozen books, novels as well as non-fiction. He is also editor of the cultural periodical De Gids and fulfils various board and advisory functions in the field of culture. He writes a weekly column for Vrij Nederland.