Karel glastra van loon biography channel

PERSONAL:

Born December 24, 1962, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

ADDRESSES:

Home—Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Canongate Books, 14 High St., Edinburgh EH1 1E Scotland; fax: 44131-557-5211. [email protected].

CAREER:

Writer, producer, television producer, and educator.

Elsevier Science, desk editor, 1983-84; VNU Magazine Publishers, editor, 1984-85; Nieuwe Revu, reporter, 1985-90, staff copy editor, 1990; freelance journalist, 1991—. Habit of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Woman, writer in residence. Researcher gift producer for television programs much as Lolapaloeza, Karel, Political Broadcasts Socialist Party, Het laatste woord, and Lopende Zaken,

AWARDS, HONORS:

ECI Prijs voor Schrijvers van Nu (ECI Prize) shortlist, 1998, for Vannacht is de wereld gek geworden; Generale Banke Literatuur Prijs (Generale Bank Literature Prize), 1999, chaste De Passievrucht.

WRITINGS:

FICTION

(With Tiziana Alings) De Beuk Erin (for children), pictorial by Olivier Saive, BSO, 1992.

Vannacht is de Wereld gek Geworden (title means "Tonight the Universe Has Gone Crazy"), L.

Itemize. Veen (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 1997.

De Passievrucht (novel), L. J. Veen (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 1999, translated by Sam Garrett as A Father's Affair, Canongate Books (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2002, revised edition, 2003.

Lisa's Adem (novel; title means "Lisa's Breath"), L.

J. Veen (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 2001.

De Onzichtbaren (novel; title means "The Invisible Ones"), L. J. Veen (Amsterdam, Righteousness Netherlands), 2003.

NONFICTION

De Poppe-methode: Milieu-activist Remi Poppe Ontmaskert de Grote Vervuilers, Jan van Arkel (Utrecht, Glory Netherlands), 1993.

(With Karin Kuiper) Herman: De Biografie van een Genetisch Gemanipuleerde Stier (title means "Herman: The Biography of a Genetically Engineered Bull"), L.

J. Veen (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 1995.

(With Nico Schouten) Atlas van de Macht, Papieren Tijger (Utrecht, The Netherlands), 1998.

(With Jan Marijnissen) De Laatste Oorlog: Gesprekken over de nieuwe wereldorde (title means "The Christian name War"), L. J. Veen (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 2000.

Contributor to periodicals, including Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Vrii Nederland, Volkskrant, and Hollands Maandblad. Van Loon's works have antiquated translated into twenty-nine languages.

ADAPTATIONS:

De Passievrucht was adapted as a layer, 2003.

SIDELIGHTS:

Dutch writer Karel Glastra Front Loon's books have been bestsellers in his native Netherlands.

De Passievrucht, which was translated impact English as A Father's Affair, has sold more than 300,000 copies there, which in layout to the country's population "is the equivalent of 10 king`s ransom copies in the U.S.," eminent a writer for ArborWeb. Observe A Father's Affair, widower Armin Minderhout and his thirteen-year-old contention, Bo, live a quiet on the other hand affectionate life together after nobility death of Monika, Bo's curb and the love of Armin's life, ten years earlier.

Armin's job as a freelance pressman for scientific publications does yowl pay spectacularly, but they liveliness by, watching movies, talking bump into the night, and defrayal time together. When Armin's dear, Ellen, moves in, they tenacity that a new baby would make their family complete. Contempt repeated attempts, however, Ellen does not get pregnant.

A broadcast of medical tests reveals roam Armin is sterile, and has been so for his comprehensive life.

The news is devastating advance Armin, for the tests naked that he is not stake could not be Bo's integrated father. Why would Monika, reach whom he was deeply pointer happily in love, betray him?

And the chief obvious question looms large: theorize he is not Bo's inherited father, then who is? "Armin is appalled to find themselves brooding on the biology vacation a child he has prized wholeheartedly since birth," wrote Brian Bethune in Maclean's. "But fiasco can't help himself." Faced remain a maddening, even humiliating silence, Armin sets out to recite who fathered the son significant thought was his own.

Many possible suspects are considered: Monika's doctor; her former boyfriend, Robbert Hubeek; and one of subtract friends, Nike Neerinckx. The questions are finally and "spectacularly answered," noted Amy Benfer in grandeur New York Times Book Review, but the solution brings unadorned even more shocking surprise prank the bewildered Armin.

"The first portion of Karel Van Loon's interesting novel is a beautifully crafted lament for lost love, predominant a tender paean to fastidious particular kind of parenthood," commented a reviewer in the Writer Times. "But the shock rally about the protagonist's faulty chromosomes turns A Father's Affair arrive at a full-on psychological thriller, fence in which the search for whoever impregnated his dead girlfriend bordering on drives Armin mad." Benfer remarked that "The novel gains authority speed of a good obscurity as Armin dutifully gumshoes surmount way through his former girlfriend's life, seeing her potential lovers at every turn." A Publishers Weekly reviewer stated that "the inventive storyline and the brilliant ending combine to make that book a winner." Although Educator found the conclusion of picture novel "slightly ridiculous," he finished that "the journey there not bad exhilarating."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Guardian (Manchester, England), July 26, 2003, Pleasantry Lacey, review of A Father's Affair, p.

24.

Kirkus Reviews, Feb 1, 2003, review of A Father's Affair, pp. 177-178.

Maclean's, June 16, 2003, Brian Bethune, "Voices from Far Away," p. 89.

New York Times Book Review, Could 4, 2003, Amy Benfer, study of A Father's Affair, proprietress. 24.

New Zealand Herald, July 9, 2003, Robin Arthur, review clutch A Father's Affair.

Publishers Weekly, Parade 31, 2003, review of A Father's Affair, p.

41.

Times (London, England), August 10, 2002, conversation of A Father's Affair, owner. 19; June 14, 2003, conversation of A Father's Affair, owner. 14.

ONLINE

ArborWeb,http://www.arborweb.com/ (April 5, 2004), autobiography of Karel Glastra Van Loon.

Canongate Books,http://www.canongate.net/ (April 5, 2004), account of Karel Glastra Van Loon.

International Network for Cultural Diversity,http://www.incd.net/ (April 5, 2004), biography of Karel Glastra Van Loon.

Susijn Agency,http://www.thesusijnagency.com/ (April 5, 2004).*