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I've been writing stories for most of my life, always somewhere between journalism, fiction, music, and activism. I began as an investigative reporter in the early seventies, digging into political scandals, military abuses, and the hidden influence of powerful families. Later I travelled through Central and South America, reporting from guerrilla movements and conflict zones that shaped the world far from where I grew up.
After years in journalism and documentary filmmaking, I shifted my focus and helped build parts of Rotterdam’s cultural scene. I founded Rotown and Nighttown, two venues that grew into places where new music, art, and ideas found an audience. Throughout my career I’ve moved between writing, publishing, music, and long-ter I've been writing stories for most of my life, always somewhere between journalism, fiction, music, and activism. I began as an investigative reporter in the early seventies, digging into political scandals, military abuses, and the hidden influence of powerful families. Later I travelled through Central and South America, reporting from guerrilla movements and conflict zones that shaped the world far from where I grew up.
After years in journalism and documentary filmmaking, I shifted my focus and helped build parts of Rotterdam’s cultural scene. I founded Rotown and Nighttown, two venues that grew into places where new music, art, and ideas found an audience. Throughout my career I’ve moved between writing, publishing, music, and long-term projects around sustainability and fair trade. For me, storytelling and social engagement have always belonged together.
I’ve published novels, thrillers, columns, and books on social change, while building companies and foundations devoted to development cooperation, ethical entrepreneurship, and cultural innovation. Many of my earlier books are now being reissued in English.
I’ve had my share of successes and failures — often in equal measure — but my mission never really changed: to explore how we live, how we might do better, and how culture and imagination can help us get there, without turning into a preacher or someone who insists on having all the answers, and always as a storyteller at heart.
Recently I decided it was time to imagine the world as it should be — and to capture it in a novel. The book 2125 – The Hibernator grew out of a simple question that wouldn’t let go of me: what would the world look like if we finally decided to do things right? The novel follows a man waking from a century-long artificial coma into a world that has learned, slowly and painfully, to live in balance. I’m now working on a nonfiction companion that explores how we might build such a future in reality — a world that can endure for generations, in harmony with people and planet.
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For more than fifty years, I have worked as a journalist, editor, entrepreneur, and activist, trying to understand how we can move the world in the right direction. By “the right direction,” I do not mean saving the planet. The planet will survive. The real challenge is ensuring that it remains a place where humans can thrive. My children and grandchildren, and the generations that follow them, wi Read more of this blog post »

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