Overview
- Her death was announced by her family, who said she passed away Sunday evening in The Hague.
- Keuls was widely regarded as a leading figure of the Dutch social novel, with CPNB director Eveline Aendekerk praising her for giving voice to the unheard.
- Her best-known works include Jan Rap en z'n maat, De moeder van David S., and Het verrotte leven van Floortje Bloem.
- In 1973 she co-founded the JOS youth shelter for people facing addiction and mental-health problems, an experience that shaped her socially engaged fiction.
- In the 1980s she alleged abuse by a children's judge in a book that drew institutional criticism; the case was later dropped and the judge received an honorable dismissal.
- Her oeuvre spanned more than ninety works across novels, plays, radio and television, and she was honored with the Trouw Publieksprijs in 1999 and the Haagse Cultuurprijs in 2012 while remaining active into recent years, including a National Remembrance address in 2024.