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In Dutch that's the same sentence.
We use van het werk as from work (meaning from the office) in this case work isn't really defined, similar to Hij zit in de gevangenis = He is in prison. In both examples the article has to be included in Dutch.
But we also use van het werk as of the work (meaning of the book/of the piece of art).
Normally the sentence Wie is de schrijver van het werk? means the latter, since the former is only used when people specifically refer to their job/the office.
In Dutch werk can mean any writing (from an article to a book), although it will mostly be used for books or anything that took a lot of effort to make (think any scientific paper or a thesis), shorter things like (newspaper) articles, columns, letters etc. are usually referred to as stuk.
I'm not to sure how piece is used with regards to different writings in English, if it's anything similar to Dutch, it could work.
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I had this issue as well. If the drop-down defines werk as 'work/job/jobs', then it should be accepted as an answer.