He won numerous awards throughout his career, among them the 1975 Constantijn Huygens Prize.
[2] He studied Indology at the Utrecht University and worked after his graduation (1936) for several years as a civil servant for the Colonialministry in Paris.
In 1939, he received his doctorate in literature and philosophy with a thesis about the conflict from 1847 to 1851 between Jean Chrétien Baud and Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, two Dutch politicians (respectively, a colonial governor turned Conservative parliamentarian and a major Liberal reformer).
In the same year he embarked on MS Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and went to the Dutch East Indies to stay there as a civil servant.
In 1953 he published his first book, The Island- a collection of short stories about his Daily life in the colonies.Albert Alberts died in Amsterdam on 16 December 1995.