Literair cafe met Suzanna Jansen

March 21, 2024: Suzanna Jansen
Suzanna Jansen (b. 1964) was born and raised in Amsterdam. After a year at a
ballet training, she switches to studying Communication. In the nineties she moves
She moved to Moscow because there she was involved in the founding of the publishing concern of
Annemarie van Gaal and Derk Sauer. In Moscow she chooses journalism, working as a
freelance research for documentaries and she is a correspondent for several
newspapers. Back in the Netherlands, she makes reports for various newspapers. A
intended article on the infamous beggar's colony of Veenhuizen ends up becoming a book.
In January 2008, The Pauper's Paradise was published. This book unexpectedly became a bestseller,
which has now sold more than 300,000 copies. It has also been translated into German and
Spanish. In her latest book The Revolution or the Century of Women (2022)
describes...

March 21, 2024: Suzanna Jansen
Suzanna Jansen (b. 1964) was born and raised in Amsterdam. After a year at a
ballet training, she switches to studying Communication. In the nineties she moves
She moved to Moscow because there she was involved in the founding of the publishing concern of
Annemarie van Gaal and Derk Sauer. In Moscow she chooses journalism, working as a
freelance research for documentaries and she is a correspondent for several
newspapers. Back in the Netherlands, she makes reports for various newspapers. A
intended article on the infamous beggar's colony of Veenhuizen ends up becoming a book.
In January 2008, The Pauper's Paradise was published. This book unexpectedly became a bestseller,
which has now sold more than 300,000 copies. It has also been translated into German and
Spanish. In her latest book The Revolution or the Century of Women (2022)
she describes how women's lives have changed in a hundred years. She chooses a
"small" history to tell the "big" one: her mother, her father, her older
sister and herself form the common thread. With this story, she exposes the background of the
gender relations of our time. A dazzlingly told history of women in
Netherlands. A personal and compelling story of emancipation.
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Credits photographer: Mark Uyl