Humankind (Bregman) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—1988
• Where—Renesse, Netherlands
• Education—B.A., Utrecht University; M.A., Utrecht and University of California-Berkeley
• Awards—Liberales Book Award
• Currently—Netherlands


Rutger C. Bregman is a Dutch popular historian and author. He has published four books on history, philosophy, and economics, including

Bregman earned his BA in history at Utrecht University and his MA in history in, partly at Utrecht and partly at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a student, he was a member of Christian student association SSR-NU.

Career
After school, Bregman considered a career as an academic historian, but instead he began working as a journalist. He wrote regularly for the online journal De Correspondent and was twice nominated for the European Press Prize for his work there.

Bregman is the author of Humankind: A History of Hope (2020); Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (2017), which has been translated into thirty-two languages; and The History of Progress (2013), for which he received the annual book award from the think tank Liberales for the most remarkable Dutch-language non-fiction book.

His work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Guardian and the BBC. He has been described by The Guardian as the "Dutch wunderkind of new ideas" and by TED Talks as "one of Europe's most prominent young thinkers." His 2017 TED Talk, "Poverty Isn't a Lack of Character; It's a Lack of Cash," was chosen by TED curator Chris Anderson as one of the year's top 10. (Adapted from Wikippedia. Retrieved 6/9/2020.)