Erik Brus

Erik Brus
Brus in 2017
Born	1964 (1964) Krimpen aan den IJssel, Netherlands
Died	19 December 2024 (aged 60) Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Occupation(s)	writer and journalist

Erik Brus (1964 – 19 December 2024) was a Dutch writer, editor and journalist. He became known as editor-in-chief of Passionate Magazine and worked on books about among others, writer and poet Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager and Hans Sleutelaar.

Biography

Brus was born in Krimpen aan den IJssel in 1964 where he also grew up. He studied English language and literature at Leiden University. He moved to Rotterdam.

During the early 1990s, Brus made his debut in the literary football magazine Hard gras and wrote for the magazine Holland-SF and De Tijdlijn.

He started working from March 1995 for Passionate Magazine and became within a short time editor-in-chief. Brus also had a regular column and wrote in 1997 a special about Riekus Waskowsky. While the position of editor-in-chief changed from Giel van Strien, Richard Dekker and Ernest van der Kwast to Iris van Erve, Brus remained an editor until the last issue in 2013. The magazine merged with Bulkboek in to Passionate Bulkboek and started working there.

Next as working for magazines he also contributed to books. In 2006 to the novel Zwartboek based on the story by Gerard Soeteman and Paul Verhoeven. In 2012 he contributed to the book Rotterdam including posthumous work of writers Robert Loesberg and A. Moonen. The same year he wrote the book Gehavende stad (Hardened City) with Fred de Vries about the development of music and literature in Rotterdam from the 1960s.

Brus wrote books with biographical content about Frans Vogel, writer and poet Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager and Hans Sleutelaar.

Brus died in Rotterdam on 19 December 2024 at the age of 60 years old.