Kees van Beijnum is a Dutch writer. He grew up in Amsterdam, where his mother had a bar near the Zeedijk. Before he became a writer, he was a journalist. He made his debut as a novelist in 1991 with Over het IJ, a non-fiction novel about a murder case in Amsterdam. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2001 for De Oesters van Nam Kee. Van Beijnum also wrote the scenarios for De langste reis, a movie about the kidnapping of businessman Gerrit Jan Heijn, and for De Heineken Ontvoering, a movie about the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken. 

March 21st, 1957 in Amsterdam (Age 67)