Robert van Gulik

1910 - 1967

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

genre: detective fiction

country of citizenship: Kingdom of the Netherlands

native language: Dutch

languages spoken, written or signed: English, Dutch

educated at: Leiden University, Utrecht University

occupation: writer, linguist, diplomat, translator, novelist, illustrator, musician, orientalist, prosaist

position held: ambassador

Robert Hans van Gulik (Chinese: 髙羅佩; pinyin: Gāo Luópèi, 9 August 1910 – 24 September 1967) was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat, musician (of the guqin), and writer, best known for the Judge Dee historical mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An. Source: Wikipedia (en)