Julien Ignacio

(The Netherlands, 1969) graduated with a degree in Literature and travelled through Asia, Australia, West Africa, the Caribbean (where his roots lie on the isle of Aruba), South America and the Middle East for four years. He publishes theatrical texts, columns and short stories. In 2008 he won the El Hizjra Literature Prize for his stageplay Hotel Atlantis. He is co-founder of the theatre company tgDakota, an editor with the literary magazine Tirade, and sits on the board of the Caribbean Literature Working Group. His debut novel Kus (Kiss, 2018) is a poignant and poetically written father-son story. He collaborated with writer colleague Raoul de Jong to compile Dat wij zongen (That We Sang, 2022), an anthology of Caribbean stories and essays. His second novel Goudjakhals (Golden Jackal, 2023) comprises a chain of historical and sci-fi migrant stories set in Aruba and Curaçao, Beirut and Tehran, Lesbos and Amsterdam.