Fiction
Mineke Schipper is also a fiction writer. Her three novels (in Dutch) are all set in the context of globalisation. Her most recent novel Vogel valt vogel vliegt (Bird Falls Bird Flies Amsterdam: Prometheus 2007), was praised by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee as “an absorbing story of the growth of adult love, and the letting go of past love, in the shadow of America’s imperial wars.”
Besides novels, essays and academic books in various languages, she also publishes in general Dutch and international newspapers and magazines, including NRC-Handelsblad, The Times, El Mundo, Los Angeles Times, Ex-Change (Hong Kong).
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