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Endpoint: Monika Sauwer



created on: 9/10/2025
by: Lo55o (13840)
 
 

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Monika Sauwer (pseudonym of Yolande Nusselder (born June 23, 1946 in Naarden, Netherlands) is a Dutch writer. She also draws and paints.
She has published collections of short stories, novels and also children's books, some of which she illustrated herself.

Sauwer was born in Naarden as the eldest of three children. Her father was the "hard-working office man" and the painter Bernard Nusselder. Her mother, who grew up in Maassluis as the daughter of general practitioner Dr. Melchior, was a housewife. She grew up in Bussum, in the residential area Het Spiegel.

She studied psychology in Amsterdam and attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Since she was twenty-one, she has lived with radio producer, journalist and author Wim Noordhoek. She worked for a while as a translator of German and English, drew cartoons and made radio plays for the VPRO, including the 'radio comic strip' Piet Ponskaart.

She made her debut under her pseudonym in 1978 with the collection of short stories Mooie Boel, for which she received the debut prize the Gouden Ezelsoor. Nine years earlier, she had already published a book under her own name together with Wim Noordhoek, Het Gebied Van De Goede Kruiden.

She wrote another book based on letters her parents wrote to each other: Heloïse en het Inwonen 1947-1952.

Her work is known as melancholic, cynical, sometimes sardonic and is noted for its laconic, lighthearted tone.
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Daughter of : Bernard Nusselder
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Partner (not married) : Wim Noordhoek
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Submitted by : Lo55o (13840)
on : 09/10/2025