Jan Brokken Jan Brokken has, in a literary career spanning thirty years, written books about a number of different places around the globe, including West Africa, the Dutch Caribbean, Indonesia and China, winning acclaim for his adventurous attitude and sensitive style. He gained international fame with The Rainbird, The Blind Passengers, My Little Madness, Baltic Souls, In the House of the Poet, The Reprisal and The Cossack Garden. He is renowned as a masterful storyteller. The New York Times praised his book Jungle Rudy on Rudy Truffino, who mapped the Venezuelan jungle, as 'a masterpiece of narrative non-fiction'. |