Jan Brokken

Jan Brokken (1949) has, in a literary career spanning thirty years, written books about a number of places, including West Africa, the Dutch Caribbean, Indonesia and China. He has been winning aclaim for his adventurous attitude and sensitive style. He gained international fame with The Rainbird, The Blind Passengers, My Little Madness, Baltic Souls, In the House of the Poet, The Reprisal and The Cossack Garden. He is renowned as a masterful storyteller. The New York Times praised his book Jungle Rudy (translated by Sam Garrett) on Rudy Truffino, who mapped the Venezuelan jungle, as ‘a masterpiece of narrative non-fiction’.