Michaël Zeeman (12 September 1958 – 27 July 2009) was a Dutch journalist, author, editor, columnist and literary critic.

Zeeman was born in Marken, a small, mainly Protestant town north of Amsterdam, into the family of a pastor.

[1] From 1991, Zeeman wrote columns and essays for the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, on poetry, prose fiction and non-fiction, music, theater, and visual arts.

[1] Especially notable was his feud with Joost Zwagerman, one of the most prominent Dutch writers from the late 1980s onwards, whose novel Chaos en rumoer was "publicly executed" in Zeeman's television program.

[4] Starting in the mid-1990s, Zeeman presented two literary programs for VPRO television which gained national recognition,[5] Kamer met Uitzicht and Zeeman met Boeken (1995–2002), for which he interviewed writers such as Jeanette Winterson,[1] Edward Said, and Philip Roth.