Peter van Dongen
Peter van Dongen (born October 21, 1966 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch comic book writer and illustrator.
Life
Peter van Dongen is the son of a Dutchman of German-Dutch descent and an Indonesian. The mother Peggy Anita Kneefel, whose family came from the island of Ternate , was born in Sulawesi in 1941 and fled with her family to the Netherlands in 1952. The grandfather Henri Johan Kneefel, a KNIL officer and a European-Indonesian mestizo , was murdered by the Japanese occupiers because of his loyal attitude to the Dutch crown .
Van Dongen attended the "Graphic School" in Amsterdam. At the age of 16 he was able to publish articles in the magazine De Vrije Balloen .
Since then he has been working as a freelance illustrator and writing comics.
In 1990 he published his first comic story with Muizentheater . In 1992 he visited Indonesia as a tourist, also to do research for his next book. In the graphic novel Rampokan he deals with the Indonesian war of independence against the Dutch colonial power , it took him eight years to create the first volume, which appeared in September 1998, and the comic was printed in advance in the daily newspaper Het Parool . The second part of Rampokan was published in 2004, and in 2005 van Dongen also presented his book in Indonesia on the island of Java .
Works (selection)
- Muizentheater . Doornik: Casterman, 1990
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Rampokan deel 1 Java . Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 1998
- Rampokan. Part: 1, Java . Translation Jan Kruse . Berlin: Avant, 2008
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Rampokan deel 2 Celebes . Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 2004
- Rampokan. Part: 2, Celebes . Translation Jan Kruse. Berlin: Avant, 2008
- Rampokan schetsboek . Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 2005
- Three in Rio . Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 2013
- Way uit Indië . Text by Hans Vervoort . Amsterdam: Conserve, 2014
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter van Dongen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Peter van Dongen in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Peter van Dongen at perlentaucher.de
- Peter van Dongen , website
- Peter van Dongen , at Avant-Verlag
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Katarina Borchardt: We learned almost nothing about this time . Interview, in: taz , January 9, 2016, p. 12
- ↑ Eric Verhoest, quoted from Peter Breedveld (Stripschrift 365, published 2004), in: Peter Van Dongen: Rampokan . Ed .: translated by Caroline Dobbelstein. Éditions Dupuis, Marcinelle (Belgique) 2018, ISBN 979-1-03473101-5 , p. without page number .
- ↑ According to the information from his German publisher, he received the Dutch Stripschapprijs for the best comic of the year. This can not be verified on the list of winners .
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SURNAME | Dongen, Peter van |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch comic book writer and illustrator |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1966 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |