Anya Niewierra

Anya Niewierra is the number one bestselling author of the Netherlands, dubbed by the press as the new queen of Dutch literature. She has written six books, all of them immense bestsellers. Her breakthrough book The Camino has sold well over 800,000 copies in the Netherlands, won both the NS Reader’s Award and the Hebban Crime Award, and was the bestselling and most borrowed book of the year in the Netherlands in 2024, spending over 170 weeks on the bestseller list. It’s currently being made into an international television series and has been published in multiple languages. Niewierra was a director in the tourism industry for over thirty years, and lives and writes in South Limburg, close to the Belgian and German borders. Her childhood years within the serene abbey walls of Rolduc, as well as her life in Northern Catalonia, inspired Niewierra to write The Flower Girl, for which she won her first Hebban Crime Award. She’s renowned for her research, love of nature, and her layered characters. Her latest book, The Nomad, was a number one bestseller on the day of release.