at the age of

1: stands up in bed with the mattress on his back

14: admitted to the Scapino Academy of Dance, Amsterdam

17: bell-boy at the Penta Hotel, London

19: desk-boy at Kiln Park, Wales

25: MA, British and American Literature, Radboud University

31: The Intruder (a groundbreaker on Henry James) is scrambled for by UK and US journals

41: winner of the Charlotte Köhler Prize, Amsterdam

The New Yorker: “Evident merits”.

BBC Writersroom: “Consistently original and intriguing.”

Publishers Weekly: “…relishing the subtle beauty of the author’s prose and its life-affirming message.”

Publications in English

Encounter, Houghton Mifflin, Bloomsbury, The New Writer, Eerdmans, 1987 – 2004

Publications in The Netherlands, Germany, Poland, 1986 – 2009