Maartje Willems
Maartje Willems is a Dutch journalist and writer. She lives in Amsterdam where she works as a freelancer and for the VPRO radio program Never Sleep Again. She previously wrote the self-help book Vanaf nu wordt alles beter (“From Now On Everything Will Get Better”).
Maartje Willems
Maartje Willems is a Dutch journalist and writer. She lives in Amsterdam where she works as a freelancer and for the VPRO radio program Never Sleep Again. She previously wrote the self-help book Vanaf nu wordt alles beter (“From Now On Everything Will Get Better”).
Books by Maartje Willems

How to Be Bored: The Dutch Art of Living Well by Doing Absolutely Nothing
Lona Aalders, Maartje Willems
Hardback, 2026
Rediscover the gift of boredom with niksen, the Dutch way of doing . . . nothing.


