Boeken en geschiedenis zijn al zolang ik mij kan herinneren vaste pijlers in mijn bestaan. Ik probeer mijn passie voor historie via mijn eigen romans te delen met andere lezers. Zelf ben ik een fan van historische fictie en non-fictie, onder meer van de schrijvers John Boyne, Ken Follett, Simone van der Vlugt, Geert Mak en Suzanna Jansen.
(Omdat ik mij als schrijver zijnde op internet niet negatief wil uiten over andermans schrijfwerk, noteer ik op goodreads alleen de gelezen boeken die ik met drie sterren of hoger beoordeel.)
Frans de Waal has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. The author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, among many other works, he is the C. H. Candler Professor in Emory University’s Psychology Department and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Turkish-Dutch actress, author and theatre performer Nilgün Yerli was born in Turkey. She came to the Netherlands at the age of ten and originally lived in Heerenveen but later moved to Amsterdam.
Born in Wakayama City and a graduate of Tokyo Women's Christian College, Sawako Ariyoshi spent part of her childhood in Java. A prolific novelist, she dramatises significant issues in her fiction such as the suffering of the elderly, the effects of pollution on the environment, and the effects of social and political change on Japanese domestic life and values, especially on the lives of women. Her novel The Twilight Years depicts the life of a working woman who is caring for her elderly, dying father-in-law. Among Ariyoshi's other novels is The River Ki, an insightful portrait of the lives of three rural women: a mother, daughter, and granddaughter. Her novel The Doctor's Wife, a historical novel dramatising the roles of nineteenth-century
