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Adriaan van Dis was born in 1946 in Bergen, the Netherlands.
He made his literary debut with the novel Nathan Sid, which is the story of a boy growing up between two cultures: colonial Indonesia and the Netherlands in the aftermath of the Second World War. His most well-known novel is My Father’s War.
The confrontation between two cultures is a recurring theme in van Dis' work. His travel book In Africa addresses the war in Mozambique. His novel Family Fray recounts the story of a boy who grows up in a family repatriated to the Netherlands from Indonesia, yet who remains an outsider despite his efforts to conform. His most recent novel is De wandelaar (The Walker).
Van Dis currently lives in Paris.
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