Renate Maria Dorrestein (25 January 1954 – 4 May 2018) was a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist.
She started working as a junior journalist for the Dutch magazines Libelle and Panorama. During the period 1977 - 1982 she published in Het Parool, Viva, Onkruid and Opzij. Dorrestein published her first novel (Buitenstaanders) in 1983. Her sister's suicide had a great influence on her books. Dorrestein won the Annie Romein prize in 1993 for her complete body of work. A lot of Dorrestein's books were translated, and they were sold in 14 countries.
In September 2017 Dorrestein publicly announced that she was suffering from esophageal cancer. She died on 4 May 2018 at the age of 64.
1976 – Voorleesboek voor planten (ISBN 9021603977)
1987 – Een nacht om te vliegeren
1988 – Het perpetuum mobile van de liefde
1988 – Haar kop eraf. Alice als ideale heldin voor hedendaagse feministes (essay, ISBN 9051880227)
1992 – Katten en de kunst van het boekenonderhoud / Cats and the art of book maintenance
1992 – Ontaarde moeders (translated into English as Unnatural mothers for the US)
1996 – Verborgen gebreken (translated into English as Crying shame for the UK and made into a film in 2004 (Verborgen Gebreken (film), by Paula van der Oest)
1997 – Het Tiende Inzicht (ISBN 907601101X)
1997 – Want dit is mijn lichaam ("Boekenweekgeschenk")
1998 – Een hart van steen (translated into English as A heart of stone for the US and the UK)
1999 – Voor Liefde klik op F (short story)
2000 – Het geheim van de schrijver
2001 – Zonder genade (translated into English as Without mercy for the US and the UK)
2003 – Het duister dat ons scheidt (translated into English as The Darkness That Divides Us by Hester Velmens)
2006 – Mijn zoon heeft een seksleven en ik lees mijn moeder Roodkapje voor