Arthur Valentijn Japin (born 26 July 1956 in Haarlem, the Netherlands) is a renowned Dutch novelist. July 26 is the 207th day (208th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 158 days remaining. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Country Netherlands Province North Holland Coordinates Area 32. ...

Biography

His parents were Bert Japin, a teacher and writer of detective novels, and Annie Japin-van Arnhem. After a difficult childhood - his father killed himself when he was twelve years old - Japin entered the Kleinkunstacademie in Amsterdam, where he trained as an actor. He was also briefly an opera singer at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam. Nickname: Mokum Motto: Heldhaftig, Vastberaden, Barmhartig (Valiant, Determined, Compassionate) Location of Amsterdam Coordinates: Country Netherlands Province North Holland Government  - Mayor Job Cohen  - Aldermen Lodewijk Asscher Hennah Buyne Carolien Gehrels Tjeerd Herrema Maarten van Poelgeest Marijke Vos  - Secretary Erik Gerritsen Area [1][2]  - City 219 km²  (84. ... The Teatro alla Scala in Milan. ...

His first novel, De zwarte met het witte hart (1997), translated as The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi, was the story of two Ashanti princes, Kwame Poku and Kwasi Boachi, who were taken from today's Ghana and given as gifts to the Dutch king Willem II in 1837. Based in part on Japin's own traumatic youth, and based on ten years of research in the Netherlands, Germany, Africa, and Indonesia, the book became a bestseller and is considered to be a classic of modern Dutch literature. In November 2007, an opera based on the novel will premiere in Rotterdam, with an English libretto by Arthur Japin and music by the British composer Jonathan Dove. For other uses, see Ashanti (disambiguation). ... Willem II Tilburg is a Dutch football club playing in Tilburg. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... Rotterdam Location Coat of arms The coat of arms of Rotterdam. ... Jonathan Dove (July 18, 1959 - ) is a British composer of opera and choral works and theatre, film, orchestral and chamber music. ...

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. Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area    - City 1285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban... Federico Fellini Federico Fellini (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993) was one of the most influential and widely revered Italian film-makers of the 20th century and is considered to be one of the finest film directors of all time. ...

His third novel, Een schitterend gebrek, translated as In Lucia's Eyes (2003), was a return to the historical novel, about Casanova's first lover, Lucia, who, he reports in his Memoirs, inexplicably abandoned him in his youth, only to resurface years later as a hideous prostitute in an Amsterdam brothel. A memoir, as a literary genre, forms a sub-class of autobiography. ... Nickname: Mokum Motto: Heldhaftig, Vastberaden, Barmhartig (Valiant, Determined, Compassionate) Location of Amsterdam Coordinates: Country Netherlands Province North Holland Government  - Mayor Job Cohen  - Aldermen Lodewijk Asscher Hennah Buyne Carolien Gehrels Tjeerd Herrema Maarten van Poelgeest Marijke Vos  - Secretary Erik Gerritsen Area [1][2]  - City 219 km²  (84. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

His forthcoming 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. Official language(s) No Official Language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... Combatants Native Americans United States of America/Colonial America Indian Wars is the name generally used in the United States to describe a series of conflicts between the federal government and Native Americans. ... The Fort Parker massacre was an event in 1836 in which members of the pioneer Parker family were killed in a raid by Native Americans. ... Cynthia Ann Parker, or Naduah (also sometimes spelled Nadua and Nauta), was an Anglo-Texas woman of Scotch-Irish descent who suffered being kidnapped twice in her lifetime - once from her natural family at the age of nine by a Native American raiding party, and once from her Indian family... For other uses, see Comanche (disambiguation). ... Quanah Parker Quanah Parker (c. ...

Japin has also published several volumes of stories. The first two, Magonische verhalen and De vierde wand, were gathered into the omnibus Alle verhalen, (2005). Magonische verhalen was made into the film Magonia by the Dutch director Ineke Smits. Japin was the author of the Boekenweekgeschenk (Book Week Gift) 2006, De grote wereld, a short novel about a pair of circus-performing dwarves caught in Nazi Germany, which had a record first printing of 813,000 copies. He has won almost every prestigious prize in Dutch literature, including the Libris Prize for In Lucia's Eyes. Magonia is a magazine ostensibly focused on the UFO phenomena but explores related areas of belief and unusual behaviour. ... National Socialism redirects here. ...

Japin lives in Utrecht. Utrecht refers to various cities and areas: Utrecht (province), of the Netherlands Utrecht (city), Netherlands, and capital of the province of the same name Utrecht (municipality), includes the city of Utrecht and two neighbouring villages (Vleuten / de Meern) Utrecht (agglomeration), in the Netherlands, includes the city of Utrecht Diocese of...

Bibliography

• 1991: Heijermans!, a play, published by Het Nederlands Volkstoneel
• 1996: Magonische verhalen
• 1997: De zwarte met het witte hart, novel, translated as The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi
• 1998: De vierde wand, travel stories
• 2001: Magonia, screenplay (based upon several of the ‘Magonische verhalen’)
• 2002: De droom van de leeuw, novel
• 2002: De vrouwen van Lemnos, choreographical screenplay
• 2003: Een schitterend gebrek, novel, translated as In Lucia's Eyes
• 2004: Dooi & Zeep, two stories illustrated by Arthur Japin, published by Uitgeverij Brokaat
• 2006: De klank van sneeuw, two stories
• 2006: De grote wereld, Book Week Gift

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Japin has also written several screenplays, radio plays, songs, and theater pieces. His songs have appeared on the CDs Vol verlangen and Nuances van Liefde, sung by Astrid Seriese.

Prizes

• 1990 - Gorcumse Literatuurprijs for De klap van Ediep Koning
• 1995 - LIRA-prijs for De roering van het kielzog
• 1995 - Literaire prijs van de provincie Gelderland for De draden van Anansi
• 1998 - Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogtprijs for De zwarte met het witte hart
• 1998 - Halewijn-literatuurprijs van de stad Roermond for the body of his work
• 1999 - ECI-prijs voor Schrijvers van Nu for De zwarte met het witte hart
• 2004 - Libris literatuurprijs for Een schitterend gebrek
• 2005 - De Inktaap for Een schitterend gebrek

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Film

• 1996: Hoerenpreek, a television film by Ineke Smits
• 1996: De Wolkenfabriek, a television film by Ineke Smits
• 2000: Magonia, film version of Magonische verhalen by Ineke Smits, starring Dirk Roofthooft, Willem Voogd, Jack Wouterse, Linda van Dyck and Ramsey Nasr; also on DVD.

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External links

• www.arthurjapin.nl: the official website with information about the writer, his books, his schedule, etc. Also includes short video fragments featuring Japin reading his work.