Renate Maria Dorrestein (25 January 1954 – 4 May 2018[1]) was a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist.

She started working as a junior journalist for the Dutch magazines Libelle and Panorama.

During the period 1977 - 1982 she published in Het Parool, Viva, Onkruid and Opzij.

[2] Dorrestein won the Annie Romein prize in 1993 for her complete body of work.

In September 2017 Dorrestein publicly announced that she was suffering from esophageal cancer.