Conny Braam

(Arnhem, 1948) was co-founder and Chair of the Anti Apartheid Movement Netherlands. Her debut as writer is Operatie Vula (1992), followed by the novel Zwavel (1996). In 2000 she published the first part of a novel trilogy about the family Abraham based in IJmuiden: De woede van Abraham, in 2002 followed by De onweerstaanbare bastaard. The last part, Het schandaal, was published in 2004. Subsequent novels are De handelsreiziger van de Nederlandsche Cocaïne Fabriek (2012) and Sjako (2014) and the literary thriller Het beest van Kruger. With Ik ben Hendrik Witbooi, Conny Braam starts a second series of novels about the experiences of Africa with colonialism during the 20th century. Hendrik Witbooi was a freedom fighter who fought against the German colonization of South-West Africa, later Namibia.