Robert van Gulik with wife Shui Shih-fang 1946
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Gulik, Robert van
Robert Hans van Gulik was born in Zutphen, the Netherlands, and grew up in Batavia (now Jakarta) in the former Dutch East Indies, where his father served as a medical officer in the Dutch Army. Van Gulik’s father collected Chinese porcelain and passed his interest on to his son who taught himself Mandarin. Robert van Gulik was fascinated by Chinese history and culture, and he became an authority o...
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Haas, Wolf
Wolf Haas is an Austrian linguist and advertising copywriter who has emerged over the past years as one of the most promising and prize-winning authors writing in German. Several of his books have been adapted for the screen and translated into several languages. He grew up in Maria Alm am Steinernen Meer near Salzburg. Both his parents worked in the restaurant trade. He attended the Borromäum ...
