Dit jaar schreef Daan Heerma van Voss een boekje over racisme en het ontaarden van de Zwarte Pieten-discussie. Dit boekje verscheen niet bij zijn gebruikelijke uitgeverij, De Bezige Bij. Het verscheen uitsluitend op Blendle, voor 0,89 E. Heerma van Voss, in NRC: „Ik had er een papieren pamflet van kunnen maken, met een kaftje, dat…

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‘A belated journey is a moving, painful and subtle work. Abel Loe and Daan are presented vividly and described with subtlety and compassion.’ – Amos Oz

  ‘Heerma van Voss has written a convincing and enticing narrative experience that lingers in the imagination. Take note of him, because he will return with great texts. Recently he arrived in Spain, just turned thirty and already backed by media like Haaretz and The New York Times, an organization like Amnesty International and authors of the stature…

‘The Last War confronts us with similarities between past and present and forces us to reflect on how prejudice might influence the future. […] The Last War allows the reader to delve into complex human relationships; in its style we might discover traces of writers like Nabokov, Borges or Bob Dylan, brushstrokes of reality in…

‘“The Last War,” Daan Heerma Van Voss’ most historical reference book of five, is actually an analysis of today and, therefore, touches on many of the relevant aspects of the last decade.’ Want to read the whole interview? Click here.  

‘According to Dutch writer Daan Heerma van Voss, there are “things of the past that explain the present” and that is precisely what he wanted to show in his last novel, “The Last War”, in which he invites to reflect on how History is repeated and how prejudices condition society. […] In many cases, people…

‘A fine line links the Europe of the 30s of the 20th century and that of the second decade of the 21st century. This is what writer Daan Heerma van Voss (Amsterdam, 1986) shows in his new novel, ‘The Last War’ (Malpaso), about the traces that armed confrontation leaves in societies, for many years to…