Ineke Holtwijk

(1955) studied Dutch in Groningen. She taught at a secondary school for two years. She has been working fulltime as a journalist since 1981, first with Winschoter Courant, then with IPS, a third world oriented press agency. She has travelled widely, especially in Africa. By the end of 1989 she travelled to Brazil where she became a correspondent voor de Volkskrant in 1992. She also works for Elsevier, Dutch television news and the news broadcast for young people. She has a column in Vice Versa, the magazine for the Foundation of Dutch volunteers overseas. In 1995 she published Engelen van het asfalt (Alsphalt Angels), a book on the street children in Brazil, awarded a Glazen Globe (Glass Globe). For this book she lived with street kids for four months. Kannibalen in Rio (Cannibals in Rio) is a novel for grownups, also published in 1995. In 2006 Rooksignalen (Smoke Signals) appeared, a book on semi-nomadic indians discovered ten years ago in a very small wood in Brazil where they survived as shipwrecked people.

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