The Guardian, Obituary: Jan Wolkers:
“The Dutch author and sculptor Jan Wolkers, who has died aged 81, became famous, not to say notorious, with his book Turkish Delight, which appeared in 1969 and contained explicit sex scenes of startling frankness, unprecedented in Dutch literature and probably unexceeded anywhere at the time. A work true to the spirit of the 1960s, it shocked a society that had not yet completed the transition from provincial conservatism to the libertarianism of modern Amsterdam (by no means shared by the whole of the rest of the country; and even Amsterdam now seems to be having second thoughts).”
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HvI // Nov 27, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Wikipedia: “Dan van der Vat is a journalist and historian of military, primarily naval history. Van der Vat grew up in Nazi-German occupied Holland. He has worked for The Times and The Guardian, both as a political and defence writer and as a foreign correspondent.”