Baukje Zijlstra

Baukje Zijlstra works as a writer and editor for publishing houses in the Netherlands and Belgium. She has published stories in such places as Ensafh, Friesch Dagblad and Revisor. She has also won several awards for stories in Frisian and Dutch, including a three-time Rely Jorritsma Prize and inclusion in the selection of 25 best stories around the Boekenweek theme Golden times, black pages. The spring of 2018 saw the publication of her debut novel De koma-korrektor, about a commanding officer in the decolonization war in Indonesia in the 1940s. For more information, visit http://www.baukjezijlstra.nl.