Stefan Brijs (born 29 December 1969) is a Belgian novelist writing in Dutch.

[2] It won the 2006 Readers' Golden Owl, the five-yearly Prize for Prose of the Royal Academy for Dutch Language and Literature, the 2011 Euregio Literatuurprijs (an award for novels available in Dutch, French and German)[3] and the 2010 Prix des Lecteurs Cognac at the Littératures européennes Cognac festival.

[4] It was nominated for the 2006 Libris Literatuurprijs and made the longlist of the 2010 International Dublin Literary Award.

It was translated in English as The Angel Maker by Hester Velmans,[5] published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and in the US by Penguin Books.

The French translation Le Faiseur d'anges by Daniel Cunin[4] was published by Héloïse d'Ormesson.