title: Toine Heijmans
text: # Toine Heijmans
  
  Toine Heijmans is a Dutch writer and journalist. He was born in 1969. He made his literary debut with the non-fiction book La Vie Vinex (2007), followed by his first novel Op Zee (At Sea, 2011). This book has been translated into several European languages and won the Prix Médicis étranger in 2013.
  
  Heijmans works for de Volkskrant.
  
  