Bart Luirink

(1954) was born and raised in Amsterdam. From 1993 to 2011 he lived and worked in Johannesburg. He was a correspondent for Dutch radio, newspapers and magazines. Since 2004 Luirink has been editor in chief of ZAM Magazine, an independent platform of African journalists and photographers, artists and thinkers. He is the president of Africa in the Picture, a multimedia platform for African film and organiser of an annual festival. He published Zingende Pijnbomen, a chronicle of Amsterdam, South-Africa (1996), Moffies, gay life in Southern Africa (1998), Voor Mandela, footnotes and stories for his 90th birthday (ed., 2008) and Puur Goud, other stories from South-Africa (2010). He now works on a book on homosexuality in Africa. For this he interviewed more than fourty religious leaders, politicians, judges, scientists, artists and activists, including archbishop Tutu.