Bio
I was born on December 11, 1969 in the heart of Haarlem, according to my grandmother 'with a pencil in my hand'. I did indeed like drawing, but also writing. I made my first 'book' at the age of eight in a Hema notepad. At primary school I liked to draw comics and wrote for the school newspaper. Much later, during my studies in Romance Languages and Cultures at the RUG, I joined the editorial staff of De Studentenkrant . After graduating, I was given the opportunity to provide a cultural section for the magazine En France , after which I started writing and editing for magazines such as Marie Claire, Intermediair, Top Santé, Linda, Flair and Flow . In 2005 I lived in England with my husband and children, and there, triggered by the murder of Theo van Gogh, I started working on my first novel: Wallada's Gasten .
The book was published in 2008 by Sirene. I thought that would be the end of it, but years later I was gripped by the dramatic life story of Johannes, my great-great-grandfather, which I elaborated in The Man Who Left Everything Behind . To my great fortune, the manuscript was accepted by Ambo|Anthos and included in their historical series. This was followed by Uit liefde, meneer Tuschinski , a novel about the cinema magnate Abraham Tuschinski and Rosa's oorlog , about an impossible love during the Second World War, published by the same publisher. The well-reviewed De reus van Amsterdam , about the adventurous life of Albert Kramer, the tallest Dutchman ever, was recently published. The pencil has long since been replaced by a computer, but I will continue writing as long as I can :-)