Janwillem van de Wetering

Janwillem van de Wetering (Middle name: Lincoln; February 12 1931 - ) is the author of a number of works in English and Dutch; he is particularly noted for his detective fiction. His most popular creations are Grijpstra and de Gier, a pair of Amsterdam police officers who figure in a lengthy series of novels and short stories. He has also written stories for children and nonfiction works. He usually writes in Dutch and then in English; the two versions often differ considerably.

Van de Wetering was born and raised in Rotterdam, but in later years he lived in South Africa, Japan, London, Colombia, Peru, Australia, Amsterdam and most recently in Maine, the setting of one of his Grijpstra and de Gier novels and his children's series about the porcupine Hugh Pine . His many travels and his experiences in a Zen Buddhist monastery and as a member of the Amsterdam Special Constabulary ("being a policeman in one's spare time" as he phrased it in his introduction to Outsider in Amsterdam) lend authenticity to his works of fiction and nonfiction.

Contents

1 Bibliography 1.1 Grijpstra and de Gier novels 1.2 Children's books 1.3 Other fiction 1.4 Non-fiction 1.5 Articles/stories not included in books 1.6 Translations to English 1.7 Unpublished in English 2 External links

Bibliography

Grijpstra and de Gier novels

• Outsider in Amsterdam, 1975
• Tumbleweed, 1976
• The Corpse on the Dike, 1976
• Death of a Hawker, 1977
• The Japanese Corpse, 1977
• The Blond Baboon, 1978
• The Maine Massacre, 1979
• The Mind-Murders, 1981
• The Streetbird, 1983
• The Rattle-Rat, 1985
• Hard Rain, 1986
• Just A Corpse at Twilight, 1994
• The Hollow-Eyed Angel, 1996
• The Perfidious Parrot, 1997
• The Amsterdam Cops: Collected Stories, 1999 (anthology) [1]

Children's books

• Little Owl, 1978
• Hugh Pine, 1980
• Hugh Pine and the Good Place, 1981
• Hugh Pine and Something Else, 1983

Other fiction

• The Butterfly Hunter, 1982
• Bliss and Bluster, 1982
• Inspector Saito's Small Satori, 1985 (anthology)
• Murder by Remote Control, 1986 (graphic novel)
• Seesaw Millions, 1988
• Mangrove Mama and Other Tropical Tales of Terror, 1995 (anthology)
• Judge Dee Plays His Lute: A Play and Selected Mystery Stories, 1997 (anthology) [2]

Non-fiction

• The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery, 1971
• A Glimpse of Nothingness: Experiences in an American Zen Community, 1975
• Robert Van Gulik: His Life, His Work, 1988
• Afterzen: Experiences of a Zen Student out on His Ear, 1999

Articles/stories not included in books

• The Way Life Should Be - Maine: coastline on a clean, cold sea. The Nation, September 1, 2003.

Translations to English

Alexandra David-Neel and Lama Yongden: The Power of Nothingness. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. (from French) [3]

Unpublished in English

• De doosjesvuller en andere vondsten, 1984 (essays in Dutch)
• Eugen Eule und der Fall des verschwundenen Flohs , 2001 (children's book in German)

[1] Replaces: The Sergeant's Cat and Other Stories, 1987 (anthology)
[2] Includes the original play Judge Dee Plays his Lute and a selection from other anthologies
[3] With an intodruction by the translator; van de Wetering also translated many books from English to Dutch and two books from French to Dutch.

External links

• The Philosophical Exercises of Janwillem van de Wetering
• Janwillem van de Wetering on Zeal