Frank Westerman

Frank Westerman ( born November 14, 1964 in Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands) is a Dutch author and journalist.

Life

Westerman grew at Assen in Drenthe in a Dutch Reformed family. Westermans father was an agricultural engineer. After high school, Westerman graduated from the University of Wageningen in the tray Tropical Agriculture. For his thesis in his studies, he went in 1987 in the south of Peru, to explore there around Puno irrigation methods of pre-Columbian Aymarabevölkerung in the Andes. At this time he wrote his first features as a journalist.

Westerman was formed in 1992 as a correspondent for the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant to Belgrade and experienced there, the falling apart of Yugoslavia. As rapporteur of the evening newspaper NRC Handelsblad, he attended a variety of trouble spots of time in the subsequent period. Together with his fellow journalists Bart Rijs he had come through in 1995 as the only journalist to Srebrenica in Bosnia - Herzegovina. This inhabited by Muslim Bosniaks area that should be "protected" by Dutch troops, was occupied by Serbian troops under General Mladic. The occupation ended with the massacre of Srebrenica to the male population and other atrocities.

The two journalists sat down in her book Srebrenica. Het Zwartste scenario from 1997 deals with the issue by recourse to secret documents and witness statements. In the years 1997-2002 Westerman was a correspondent in Moscow.

Since 2002 lives and Westerman works exclusively as a writer in Amsterdam.

Works

• 2010: Dier, bovendier translated into German by Gerd buses and Gregor Seferens: The fate of the white horse: Another history of the 20th century. C. H. Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63088-0

Honors and Awards

• 2000: Dr. Lou de Jong Award for De Graanrepubliek
• 2003: Dr. Wijnaendts Francken Prize for engineering van de target
• 2004: Jan Greshoff - price for the same publication
• 2005: Gouden Uil price for El Negro en ik