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  Gert Oostindie

  Gerrit Jan (Gert) Oostindie, former director of KITLV from 2000-2021 and emeritus professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History at Leiden University is a Honorary Fellow at KITLV. He is presently involved in the government-funded research program ‘Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950’, two NWO-funded programs, ‘Confronting Caribbean Challenges’ and ‘Traveling Caribbean Heritage’, ‘The Colonial and Slavery Past of Rotterdam’ project commissioned by the Rotterdam city council and the research ‘The Colonial and Slavery Past of The Hague‘ commissioned by the The Hague city council.
  
  Oostindie studied History and Social Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (cum laude, 1982), and obtained his PhD at Utrec

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  Ian McEwan

  Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.
  
  McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times P

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  Erich Maria Remarque

  Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bestseller, defining a new genre of veterans’ literature and inspiring multiple film adaptations. Its strong anti-war themes led to condemnation by the Nazi regime, which banned and burned his works.
  Born Erich Paul Remark in 1898, he adopted the surname Remarque to honor his French ancestry. He served on the Western Front during World War I, where he was wounded, and later pursued various jobs, including teaching, editing, and technical writing. After the massive success of All Quiet on the Western Front, he wrote several other novels addressing w

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  Ryszard Kapuściński

  Ryszard Kapuściński debuted as a poet in Dziś i jutro at the age of 17 and has been a journalist, writer, and publicist. In 1964 he was appointed to the Polish Press Agency and began traveling around the developing world and reporting on wars, coups and revolutions in Asia, the Americas, and Europe; he lived through twenty-seven revolutions and coups, was jailed forty times, and survived four death sentences. During some of this time he also worked for the Polish Secret Service, although little is known of his role.
  
  See also Ryszard Kapuściński Prize

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  Victor Sebestyen

  Victor Sebestyen was born in Budapest and was only an infant when his family left Hungary. He has worked for many British newspapers, including the Evening Standard. He lives in England.
  

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  Arnon Grunberg

  Arnon Yasha Yves (Arnon) Grunberg is a Dutch writer. Some of his books were written using the heteronym Marek van der Jagt.
  
  In 1989 Grunberg made his acting debut in Maria's Cunt (de Kut van Maria); a short film by Dutch enfant terrible filmmaker Cyrus Frisch.
  
  Grunberg made his literary debut in 1994 with the novel Blauwe maandagen (Blue Mondays), which won the Dutch prize for the best debut novel that year. In 2000, under the heteronym Marek van der Jagt, he won the best debut prize again for his novel De geschiedenis van mijn kaalheid (The History of My Baldness).
  
  Grunberg publishes novels about once a year but also writes columns and essays in a wide variety of Dutch and international newspapers and magazines. He does not restrict himself o

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• Francis Wheen

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  Max Hastings

  Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings, FRSL, FRHistS is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. His parents were Macdonald Hastings, a journalist and war correspondent, and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar.
  
  Hastings was educated at Charterhouse School and University College, Oxford, which he left after a year.After leaving Oxford University, Max Hastings became a foreign correspondent, and reported from more than sixty countries and eleven wars for BBC TV and the London Evening Standard.
  
  Among his bestselling books Bomber Command won the Somerset Maugham Prize, and both Overlord and The Battle for the Falklands won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize.
  
  After ten years as editor and then editor-in-chief of The Dai

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  Robert Frank

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
  
  Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) was a Swiss American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society. Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said The Americans "changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it. [ ... ] it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century." Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and pho

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• Misha Glenny

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  Hilary Mantel

  Hilary Mantel was the bestselling author of many novels including Wolf Hall, which won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Bring Up the Bodies, Book Two of the Wolf Hall Trilogy, was also awarded the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award. She also wrote A Change of Climate, A Place of Greater Safety, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, An Experiment in Love, The Giant, O'Brien, Fludd, Beyond Black, Every Day Is Mother's Day, Vacant Possession, and a memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. Mantel was the winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and her reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books.

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  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer was an Indonesian author of novels, short stories, essays, polemics, and histories of his homeland and its people. A well-regarded writer in the West, Pramoedya's outspoken and often politically charged writings faced censorship in his native land during the pre-reformation era. For opposing the policies of both founding president Sukarno, as well as those of its successor, the New Order regime of Suharto, he faced extrajudicial punishment. During the many years in which he suffered imprisonment and house arrest, he became a cause célèbre for advocates of freedom of expression and human rights.
  
  Bibliography:
  * Kranji-Bekasi Jatuh (1947)
  * Perburuan (The Fugitive) (1950)
  * Keluarga Gerilya (1950)
  * Bukan Pasarmalam (1951)
  * C

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  Annejet van der Zijl

  Annejet van der Zijl is a Dutch writer. Born in 1962, she studied mass communication at the UVA in Amsterdam and did a MA International Journalism at City University in London. She worked in magazine journalism until 2000, meanwhile publishing her first book Jagtlust, about a ramshackle villa that in the sixties was a meeting place for many artists and poets. Annejet van der Zijl lives in Amsterdam with her husband, a journalist.
  
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  Ivan Turgenev

  Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers and Sons (1862).
  
  These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
  
  Turgenev was a contemporary with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and reli

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• Ewald Vanvugt

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  Gert Oostindie

  Gerrit Jan (Gert) Oostindie, former director of KITLV from 2000-2021 and emeritus professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History at Leiden University is a Honorary Fellow at KITLV. He is presently involved in the government-funded research program ‘Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950’, two NWO-funded programs, ‘Confronting Caribbean Challenges’ and ‘Traveling Caribbean Heritage’, ‘The Colonial and Slavery Past of Rotterdam’ project commissioned by the Rotterdam city council and the research ‘The Colonial and Slavery Past of The Hague‘ commissioned by the The Hague city council.
  
  Oostindie studied History and Social Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (cum laude, 1982), and obtained his PhD at Utrec

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  Yambo Ouologuem

  Yambo Ouologuem (August 22, 1940 – October 14, 2017) was a Malian writer. His first novel, Le devoir de violence (English: Bound to Violence, 1968), won the Prix Renaudot. He later published Lettre à la France nègre (1969), and Les mille et une bibles du sexe (1969) under the pseudonym Utto Rodolph; he also wrote some poetry published in some journals and anthologies. Le devoir de violence was initially well-received, but critics later charged that Ouologuem had plagiarized passages from Graham Greene and other established authors. Ouologuem turned away from the Western press as a result of the matter, and remained reclusive for the rest of his life.

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  David Van Reybrouck

  David Grégoire Van Reybrouck is a Belgian cultural historian, archaeologist and author. He writes historical fiction, literary non-fiction, novels, poetry, plays and academic texts. Moreover, he is the founder of the G1000 project in Belgium, a platform for democratic innovation and inclusive participatory politics.
  
  He was born into a family of florists, bookbinders and artists. His father, a farmer's son, spent five years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a railway engineer immediately after independence.
  
  He studied archaeology and philosophy at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) and obtained a Master's degree in World Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. He also holds a doctorate from Leiden University.
  
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  Anjet Daanje

  Anjet Daanje (1965) is schrijfster van romans en verhalen, en voorheen ook filmscenario's. Haar negende roman "Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris" stond wekenlang in bestsellerlijsten, en won de Libris Literatuurprijs én de Boekenbonliteratuurprijs (voorheen AKO-literatuuprijs), en is daarmee de enige roman die ooit beide grote prijzen kreeg toegekend. Haar achtste roman "De herinnerde soldaat" won de F. Bordewijkprijs 2020. Voor haar gehele oeuvre won ze de Constantijn Huygensprijs 2023.

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  Suzanna Jansen

  Suzanna Jansen is geboren en getogen in Amsterdam. Na de middelbare school begint ze aan een balletopleiding maar stapt over op de studie Communicatie aan de HEAO. Na enige jaren bij een marketingbedrijf is ze in de jaren negentig betrokken bij de oprichting van Independent Media, het uitgeefconcern van Derk Sauer en Annemarie van Gaal in Moskou, waarvoor ze ook naar Rusland verhuist.
  
  In Moskou kiest ze voor journalistiek, als researcher voor documentaires van de VPRO en VRT, later als correspondent voor het Belgische dagblad De Morgen en freelance voor onder andere NRC Handelsblad, HP/deTijd en Opzij.

  
  Terug in Nederland schrijft ze reportages voor onder meer Trouw en Intermediair. Al gauw stuit ze op de roemruchte bedelaarskoloniën van Veen

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• Willem Melching

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  Bart Van Loo

  Schrijver en conferencier Bart Van Loo (1973) heeft zich de voorbije jaren ontwikkeld tot een zeldzaam dubbeltalent. Met zijn virtuoze minicolleges in De Wereld Draait Door raakte hij bekend bij het grote publiek, maar in de eerste plaats is Van Loo natuurlijk schrijver. Van zijn hand verschenen de alom geprezen Frankrijktrilogie en de bestsellers Chanson en Napoleon. In zijn nieuwste boek De Bourgondiërs is Bart Van Loo op het toppunt van zijn kunnen.

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  Dido Michielsen

  Dido Michielsen liet zich voor haar romandebuut Lichter dan ik inspireren door het leven van haar betovergrootmoeder. Het boek werd bejubeld door de pers, won de Boekhandelsprijs 2020 en werd genomineerd voor de Libris Literatuur Prijs. Van haar debuut zijn al meer dan 100.000 exemplaren verkocht.

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  Anya Niewierra

  Anya Niewierra is de schrijfster van de thrillers Vrij uitzicht en Het Dossier. Ze woont, werkt, schildert en schrijft in Zuid-Limburg en in de Pyreneeën. Zowel haar jeugdjaren binnen de serene abdijmuren van Gymnasium Rolduc als het deels wonen in Frans Catalonië hebben Niewierra geïnspireerd tot het schrijven van Het bloemenmeisje.

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  Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

  Mohamed Mbougar Sarr was born in Dakar in 1990. He studied literature and philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Terre ceinte (Brotherhood), his first novel, won the Grand Prix du Roman Métis, the Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, and the French Voices Grand Prize. The president of Senegal named him a Chevalier of the National Order of Merit. La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (The Most Secret Memory of Men) won the 2021 Goncourt Prize.

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  Astrid Holleeder

  Astrid Holleeder is a Dutch lawyer and author. She is a sister of criminal Willem Holleeder and together with her older sister and an ex-girlfriend of Willem she witnessed her brother in the Passage process.
  
  In 2016 she published the book Judas, about the relationship with her brother Willem, his dominance over their family and the influence of his life in the criminal circuit on his immediate environment.

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  Safae el Khannoussi

  Safae el Khannoussi (1994) is schrijver en promovendus aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Oroppa werd bekroond met de Boon en de Libris Literatuur Prijs.

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