Bio

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Rutger Bregman (1988) is a historian and author. He has published five books on history, philosophy, and economics.

His books Humankind (2020) and Utopia for Realists (2017) were both New York Times Bestsellers and have been translated in more than 40 languages. He lives in Holland.

‘The Dutch wunderkind of new ideas’
— The Guardian
 
 

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In 2017, The Observer published a profile of Rutger.

In 2019, a profile of Rutger was published in The New York Times.

In the same year, de Volkskrant published a more personal profile of Rutger in Dutch.