The Author

Derk Cools was born in 1939 in Den Haag, the Netherlands. He studied human geography and economics at the University of Utrecht. He was a civil servant at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and traveled professionally to many countries
In 1994 he moved to Curacao, The Netherlands Antilles.

Since 1995 he traveled frequently to the Midwest of America, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and further to Montana, Wyoming, California (in 1994- 1999), to Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand (in 1999 and 2005) and to Central America, Yucatan, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize (in 2004) and Nicaragua and Costa Rica (in 2005).

He loves literature, hiking ,swimming and jeu de boules. His last favourites are W.G. Sebald, Haruki Murakami and Nachoem Wijnberg.

At times he writes haikus. A kind of hubris.