Grief at death 'sweet, funny Paulien': 'What will you be missed'

"This hits like a bomb," says Volkskrant editor-in-chief Pieter Klok about the death of writer, comedian, linguist and columnist Paulien Cornelisse. She died of cancer today at the age of 50. The author of Taal is so to speak really my thing and T he confused guinea pig was loved by readers, colleagues, family and friends and people who came into contact with her work or herself, can be heard and in the reactions to her death. Klok calls her death "a loss for the whole of the Netherlands".