Books by Nicolaas Vergunst

Born in Cape Town of emigrant Dutch parents, Nicolaas Vergunst (1958) has been an artist, teacher, designer, curator and journalist. After a longstanding career with the national museums of South Africa, he resigned to write this novel and has since lived with his wife, Ellen, a diplomat and historian, in Kiev, Kinshasa and Strasbourg. They have a house in Leiden where eventually, they wish to retire with their intrepid cats.