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Authors

Tommy Wieringa

Tommy Wieringa

Tommy Wieringa was born in 1967 and grew up in the Netherlands and the tropics. A journalist, he is the prize-winning author of four other books in Dutch. His first book to be translated into English, Joe Speedboat, had already sold over 300,000 copies in its Dutch original, is being translated into over a dozen languages, and will be made into a film.


Cynthia Mc Leod

Cynthia Mc Leod

Cynthia Mc Leod is the daughter of Johann Ferrier, the last governor and first president of Suriname. She invested twelve years of historical research in writing The Free Negress Elisabeth and is widely regarded as one of the leading authorities on Surinamese history. Her first novel, The High Price of Sugar, published in Suriname in 1978, remains a bestseller.


Joris Luyendijk

Joris Luyendijk

Joris Luyendijk studied Anthropology and Arabic at the Universities of Kansas, Amsterdam and Cairo. He worked as a correspondent between 1998 and 2003, based first in Cairo, then Beirut and finally East-Jerusalem. His book, People Like Us, sold over a quarter of a million copies in the Netherlands and won two major prizes. Joris Luyendijk lives in Amsterdam.


Otto de Kat

Otto de Kat

Otto de Kat is the pen name of Jan Geurt Gaarlandt (Rotterdam, 1946), a former Dutch publisher. His first novel, Man in de verte, was published in 1998 and appeared in English translation as The Figure in the Distance (Harvill Press, 2002). His novel De inscheper (2004) met with equally great critical acclaim and is now published by MacLehose Press as Man On the Move.


Geert Mak

Geert Mak

Geert Mak is one of the Netherlands’ most popular writers. All his works have been published to huge critical and popular acclaim: Jorwerd: The Death of the Village in Late Twentieth-Century Europe, My Father’s Century, and In Europe. His latest book is The Bridge, about the Galata Bridge in Istanbul. In 2008 the prestigious Leipziger Buchpreis was conferred upon Geert Mak.


Toon Tellegen

Toon Tellegen

Toon Tellegen author and poet, is one of the Netherlands’ most celebrated writers. His animal stories have been translated into 19 languages and are loved by children and parents the world over. He lives in Amsterdam, and loves reading, telling stories and huge, sweet cakes.


Arnon Grunberg

Arnon Grunberg

Arnon Grunberg is one of the Netherlands’ most prolific and acclaimed writers. His work has been translated into twenty-one languages. Grunberg writes columns, book reviews, and essays for various Dutch newspapers and magazines and a blog for the online literary magazine Words without Borders. He lives in New York.


Frank Westerman

Frank Westerman

Frank Westerman was born in 1964 and lives in Amsterdam. He is the author of five books. His work has been published in more than ten languages. In Ararat he investigates the fault-line between religion and science, by travelling to Mount Ararat where, as biblical tradition has it, Noah’s Ark ran aground and which is now a geographical, political and cultural crossroads.