Gerda Blees

{{Short description|Dutch writer}}

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| language = Dutch

| alma_mater = Gerrit Rietveld Academie

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Gerda Blees (born 1985) is a Dutch writer. She published her first book in 2017, a short story collection titled Aan doodgaan dachten we niet (We Didn't Think About Dying). In 2018, she published her first volume of poetry, Dwaallichten (Wandering Lights).{{Cite web|url=http://www.letterenfonds.nl/en/author/711/gerda-blees|title = Author - Gerda Blees - Letterenfonds}}

She studied fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and now lives in Haarlem.

Blees won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2021 for her debut novel Wij zijn licht (We Are Light).{{Cite web |url=https://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/gerda-blees |title=Gerda Blees | EU Prize for Literature |access-date=2021-06-15 |archive-date=2021-06-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615095211/http://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/gerda-blees |url-status=dead }}

The novel – translated into English by Michele Hutchison – was also shortlisted for the 2025 International Dublin Literary Award.{{Cite web |title= Prize Years: 2025 |url=https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/prize-years/2025/ |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=Dublin Literary Award |language=en}}