Name Janwillem de Role Author | Movies Grijpstra & De Gier | |
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Awards Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere - International Category Nominations Edgar Award for Best Short Story Books The Empty Mirror: Experien, Amsterdam Cops, Outsider in Amsterdam, The Japanese corpse, The Corpse on the Dike Similar People | ||
Janwillem van de Wetering – Detective crime writer – Zen Buddhist – Pedro Meier Multimedia Art BKK
To infinity and beyond
Janwillem Lincoln van de Wetering (February 12, 1931 in Rotterdam – July 4, 2008 in Blue Hill, Maine) was the author of a number of works in English and Dutch.
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- Janwillem van de Wetering Detective crime writer Zen Buddhist Pedro Meier Multimedia Art BKK
- To infinity and beyond
- Biography
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- Radio
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Biography
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 Surry, Maine, the setting of two of his Grijpstra and de Gier novels and his children's series about the porcupine Hugh Pine.
Van de Wetering studied Zen under the guidance of Oda Sessō, together with Walter Nowick, at Daitoku-ji. Van de Wetering lived a year in Daitoku-Ji and half a year with Nowick and described these in The Empty Mirror. Van de Wetering describes a visit to the monastery by the highly respected Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, describing his own mixed thoughts about this representative of what he deemed an old-fashioned religion. Sōkō Morinaga, Walter Nowick's Dharma brother, wrote in Novice to Master about traditional practices at that time.
Toleration leads to friendship. Friendship always wins. There has never been a Buddhist war
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) lent authenticity to his works of fiction and nonfiction.
Van de Wetering was awarded the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 1984.