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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.

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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.

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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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