Bastiaan Johan "Bas" Heijne[a] (born 9 January 1960) is a Dutch writer and translator.

He translated works by E.M. Forster and Evelyn Waugh, and his own writings had features of their decadent style.

[1] Heijne gave the 2005 Mosse Lecture, titled De eeuwige homo (The eternal gay).

[2] Heijne was awarded the Henriette Roland Holst Prize (named after the Dutch poet Henriette Roland Holst) for the book Hollandse toestanden ("Dutch affairs") (2005), a collection of his columns from NRC Handelsblad.

[1] In 2014, he won the J. Greshoff Prize (named after the Dutch journalist, poet and literary critic Jan Greshoff) for his essay Angst en schoonheid ("Fear and beauty"), on the Dutch writer Louis Couperus.