[2][3][4] His 1969 novel Turks Fruit was translated into ten languages and published in English as Turkish Delight.

He died on 19 October 2007, aged 81, at his Texel home and was cremated in Amsterdam at De Nieuwe Ooster cemetery.

A number of his outdoor sculptures in the Netherlands have been subject to vandalism, presumably due to his use of glass as a construction material.

Since 2019, the private and literary archive of Jan Wolkers has been available at Leiden University Library.

[8][9] In 2006 and 2007 the novel Kort Amerikaans (Crew Cut, 1962) was made into a graphic novel (in 2 parts) by Dick Matena.