Auke Kok

Auke Kok (1956) is a journalist, non-fiction writer and city chronicler in NRC Handelsblad. Before he devoted himself full-time to writing books, he was chief editor at HP / De Tijd and editor of the NOS Radio 1 Journal. From his hand appeared among others: The traitor. Life and death of Anton van der Waals (1995), 1974. We were the best (2004) and This was Veronica. History of a pirate (2007). In 2008 he published 1988. We loved Oranje, an accurate and lively reconstruction of the so far the only championship won by the Dutch national team. Together with Dido Michielsen, he published Lisa & Lin in 2009. Five weeks back in China. The following year, War Love, about the life of Anton van der Waals' widow, appeared. Auke Kok had been working for a long time on his biography of Willem Holleeder, which was published in 2011: Holleeder. The young years. In 2014 The Lonely Woman of Amsterdam was published, a collection of columns from Het Parool, followed by The Rescue of the Van Cleeff Family (2015, together with Dido Michielsen) about the ongoing war trauma in a Jewish family. His most recent book is 1936. We went to Berlin, which was nominated for the Brusse prize on non-fiction and which was awarded the Nico Scheepmaker Cup for the best sports book of 2016.