A writer of absurd books.
Fedor van Eldijk (1970) writes absurdist prose in Dutch, together with Ronald Snijders: stories, lists, new words and news that very nearly happened. Their books are published by De Harmonie, Amsterdam.
Books
A Normal Book, Another Book, No Book. The series is complete.
De Schrikkelkalender
A tear-off calendar with well over 366 days, published for 2016, 2020 and 2024. The 2016 edition was the best-selling tear-off calendar of that year. A leap year has one extra day; this calendar has more.
Television and radio
- 2006–2007De Staat van VerwarringVPRO, a nightly late-night talk show — formats and scripts
- 2007–2008Binnenland 1VPRO, a weekly news-fiction programme on Radio 1
- 2015RamBam, Larieformats and scripts
- 2017De BoterhamshowNTR
Newspaper
The column De Alfabetweter in de Volkskrant, in 2013–2014 and in 2020–2021.
Before that
In the mid-nineties he wrote, performed and played bass in the cabaret and band N'mbusi, which won second prize at the Amsterdam Kleinkunstfestival and toured the Netherlands with Kijken of de vloer het houdt (“Seeing whether the floor holds”). With Ronald Snijders he started Absurd Magazine, where the neologisms were born that later became De Alfabetweter.