Astrid Roemer is a novelist, poet, and playwright. She has published more than 20 books. In 2016, she received the P.C. Hooft Prize, and in 2021, the Dutch Literature Prize for her body of work.

In 1979, she published her first bestseller, On the Madness of a Woman, a fragmented novel with a critical view on gender, sexuality, and colonialism. Her trilogy Impossible Motherland (1996-1998) is an ambitious narrative about the modern history of Suriname.

The English translation of On the Madness of a Woman made it to the shortlist of the National Book Awards in 2023, the first Dutch novel to achieve this. Her most recent novel is titled Dealer’s Daughter.