Leon de Winter
Leon de Winter (b. 1954) became known in the early 1980s with subdued, intellectual novels like 'Zoeken naar Eileen W' (Looking for Eileen W.) and 'La Place de la Bastille', but he later concentrated on creating vehicles for his most important themes – Jewish identity after the Second World War, good and evil – in what he refers to as ‘good reads.’ 'Kaplan' (1986), 'SuperTex' (1991), 'Zionoco' (1995) and 'God’s Gym' (2002) each became bestsellers.
De Winter invariably writes about a man in a crisis, searching for his (Jewish) roots and being forced to make existential choices. His cinematic style reflects the fact that De Winter is also a film maker. Het recht op terugkeer (The Right of Return, 2008) has been nominated for both the AKO Literature Prize and the NS Public’s Choice Prize. De Winter is a high-profile political commentator, whose columns and essays have been published in Dutch periodicals and newspapers, as well as in German titles such as Die Welt and Der Spiegel.
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Geronimo
What if Osama Bin Laden were still alive and a lookalike had been gunned down in his place? This is the geopolitical game changer that ignites Leon de Winter’s novel 'Geronimo'.
The Right of Return
In 'The Right of Return' Leon de Winter has written an audacious book that demonstrates more powerfully than ever that he is a prophet of doom. In this science-fiction novel, set mainly in 2024 and 2025, he describes a doom scenario in which Israel has been reduced in size and beleaguered to such an extent that it is virtually uninhabitable.
VSV, or Acts of Kindness
In this thrilling novel, bestselling author Leon de Winter describes how radical Muslims in Amsterdam blow up the town hall and opera house and hijack a plane before taking the children and teachers at a school (VSV) hostage. Theo van Gogh, the filmmaker and polemicist who was murdered by a Muslim in 2004, plays a special role as the guardian angel of the man who has to bring the hostage situation to a successful conclusion.