F. Springer

F. Springer (actually: Carel Jan Schneider, born January 15, 1932 in Batavia, † November 7, 2011 in The Hague) was a Dutch writer and diplomat.

Life

Carel Jan Schneider was born the son of a German teacher in the Dutch East Indies. During the Japanese occupation in World War II, he spent some time in a detention center. In 1946 the family returned to the Netherlands, where Schneider in Rotterdam and The Hague attended the school. Later, he studied law in Leiden. From 1958 to 1961 he held a post in the administration of Dutch New Guinea. In the following years was a tailor diplomat to the Dutch offices in New York, Brussels, Dhaka, Tehran and Strasbourg. In the late 1980s he was on his last foreign posting Dutch ambassador in East Berlin.

Since 1989 he has worked as a freelance writer in The Hague. He used the pseudonym F. Springer for his work.

Publications (selection )

  • Report uit Hollandia. A. A. M. Stols / J. P. Barth, 's- Gravenhage 1962. ( Stories )
  • See table, New York. Querido, Amsterdam 1974, ISBN 9,021,413,795th (novel)
  • Zaken Overzee. Querido, Amsterdam 1977, ISBN 9021413256th ( stories )
  • Bougainville: een commemorative magazine. Querido, Amsterdam 1981. (Novel) German: Bougainville. Luchterhand, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-423-12509-8.
  • Quissama: een relaas. Querido, Amsterdam 1986/etwa 1985, ISBN 9021482789th (novel) German: Quissama. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-518-11488-3.
  • Sterremeer. Een romance Querido, Amsterdam about 1990, ISBN 9070066807 ( novel )
  • Tehran een, zwanezang. Querido, Amsterdam 1991, ISBN 9021482886 (novel)
  • Bandoeng - Bandung. Een novella Querido, Amsterdam 1993, ISBN 9021482894th ( novella )
  • Kandy: een terugtocht. Querido, Amsterdam 1998, ISBN 9,021,482,738th (novel) German: The color of September. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-41052-0.
  • Weemoed s demand. Querido, Amsterdam 1998, ISBN 902148272X.
  • Verzameld factory. Querido, Amsterdam 2001, ISBN 9021482258th ( Collected Works )
  • Liesbeth Dolk: Allemaal lied: de herinnering as mooi verhaal. Querido, Amsterdam 2002, ISBN 9021482266th
  • Verre paradijzen. Querido, Amsterdam 2004, ISBN 9021480174th

For Bougainville he received in 1982 Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize and the 1995 Constantijn Huygensprijs for his life's work.

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