Thomas Baudelet Olde Heuvelt was born on April 16, 1983 in Nijmegen,The Netherlands.
When Olde Heuvelt was three, his father died, and his mother raised him and his sister
alone. Since 2007 he lives downtown in 's Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch).
Olde Heuvelt
took courses in writing and graphical design at theUtrecht School of Arts, after
which he studied American Studies at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He also attended
the University of Ottawa in Canada, taking courses including "Fiction of Horror"
and"Witchcraft, Magic and the Occult Tradition." When he was sixteen, he began to
write the manuscript of what would become his debut novel,De Onvoorziene, which was
published when he was nineteen by Dutch publisher Intes International and released
in September, 2002. Two years and various enthusiastic reviews later, his second
novel PhantasAmnesia, a supernatural thriller which combines horror with humor and
satire, was published.
Thomas Olde Heuvelt is a prodigy of the fantastic genre in The Netherlands. He has
been Guest of Honor at all the major fantasyfestivals and conventions in The Netherlands
and Belgium and his stories and essays have appeared in various anthologies and magazines.In
2004 he won the debut prize in the Paul Harland short storycontest. He was a jury
member in the Unleash Award contest several times and was asked to be an editor for
the anthology 'DuistereParels', for which he also wrote the foreword.
His talent has
attracted the attention of Luitingh, Holland's leading fantastic genre publisher.
Olde Heuvelt's new novel Leerling Tovenaar Vader & Zoon, will be launched on April
19, 2008, at the annual Elf Fantasy Fair under the Luitingh imprint.
An English-
Besides being a writer, Thomas Olde Heuvelt is
a passionate mountain climber and guitar player.
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