F. Springer (15 January 1932 – 7 November 2011) was the pseudonym of Carel Jan Schneider, a Dutch foreign service diplomat and writer.
Schneider was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. He spent World War II in a Japanese internment camp,[1] and afterward lived and worked in New Guinea, New York, Bangkok, Brussels, Dhaka, Luanda, East Berlin (he was the next-to-last Dutch ambassador there[1]), and Tehran all of which have served as locations for the novels and stories which he has published.
His laconic style is reminiscent of F. Scott Fitzgerald or Graham Greene,[1] and he often adopts an ironic perspective on his often tragic subject matter, such as in Teheran, een zwanezang, a love story set against the background of the Iranian Revolution.
Josephine Rombouts (1971) studeerde kunstgeschiedenis en Nederlands en gaf taaltrainingen aan expats, dansers en musici. Ze woonde vijf jaar met haar gezin in de Schotse Hooglanden, waar ze achtereenvolgens huishoudster, personal assistant en manager was op een kasteel. Eerder verschenen haar bestsellers Cliffrock Castle en Terug naar Cliffrock Castle.
