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5 unusual facts about Arthur Japin


Arthur Japin

His second book, De droom van de leeuw (2002), is a novelized version of his relationship with the Dutch actress and novelist Rosita Steenbeek in Rome, where Steenbeek became the last lover of the Italian director Federico Fellini.

His 2007 novel De overgave, to be translated as Someone Found, takes the subject of the 19th-century Texas Indian wars, dramatizing the story of the Fort Parker Massacre of 1836, in which a white girl, Cynthia Ann Parker, was taken as a Comanche hostage, later becoming the mother of the famous Comanche chief Quanah Parker.

He has won almost every prestigious prize in Dutch literature, including the Libris Prize for In Lucia's Eyes.

Cynthia Ann Parker

The Dutch writer Arthur Japin also wrote a book, De Overgave (The Surrender), about the life of the Parker family and the loss of Cynthia Ann.

Kwasi Boakye

Dutch writer Arthur Japin wrote a novel based on the brothers' lives, De zwarte met het witte hart (1997), translated in English as The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi.



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