
Heleen van Royen is a Dutch novelist and columnist. Her novel De gelukkige huisvrouw was the best-selling Dutch novel of 2010. The candid descriptions of sexuality found in her books and her columns have drawn considerable attention, as have her personal revelations about sexual fantasies, even to the point of ridicule: Dorine Wiersma won the Annie M.G. Schmidt award for best theatrical song for "Stoute Heleen", a crude pastiche of van Royen's depictions of her own sexuality. Two of van Royen's novels were adapted for film, De gelukkige huisvrouw, and De ontsnapping. She has two children, daughter Olivia and son Sam. In November 2006, van Royen posed in the nude for Playboy.

De ontsnapping
2006
ISBN 9789049950637
Godin van de jacht
2010
ISBN 9789049951658
Zonnegloren
2022
ISBN 9789059658561
Le Bonheur de la femme au foyer
2002
ISBN 9782226132697
De mannentester
2009
ISBN 9789049951412
De gelukkige huisvrouw
2000
ISBN 9789050001441
The Happy Housewife
2002
ISBN 9781860499005
Escape
2008
ISBN 9781446438862
De naaimachine
2010
ISBN 9789049952075
Verboden vruchten
2017
ISBN 9789048839889