Jan Wolkers was an author, sculptor, and one of the "Great
Four" writers of Dutch literature. In over forty years Jan Wolkers
(1925-2007) wrote a great number of novels, stories, and essays. He
also worked as painter and a sculptor. The Auschwitz Monument in
Wertheimpark in Amsterdam is one of his works. With his novels and
stories he liberated himself and his readers from religion and the
stifling and oppressive atmosphere of post war Holland. Turks fruit
(Turkish Delight), 1969, also represented the sexual revolution of
the sixties. Among the Protestant community his work aroused much
resistance, but his success was not to be stopped. With works like
Kort Amerikaans (Crew Cut), Turks Fruit (Turkish Delight), Terug
naar Oegstgeest (Return to Oegstgeest) and De walgvogel (The Dodo),
Jan Wolkers is among the most widely translated Dutch authors.
For his translations of close to forty novels and works of
nonfiction, Sam Garrett (b. Harrisburg, PA, 1956) has won prizes
and appeared on short lists for some of the world’s most
prestigious literary awards. Garrett is the only translator to have
twice won the British Society of Authors’ Vondel Prize for
Dutch-English translation (in 2003 and again in 2009).
Like Henry Miller, Wolkers writes with a tremendous appetite for
life and a painterly approach to the sensuous. He is a refreshing
stylist.—New York Times Book Review
Turkish Delight is a rare and filthy-beautiful tale that''''s
funny, sad, and not full of shit. Exploding with young love, lust
and longing, the poignancy of firsts, and the tragedy of time,
it''''s really everything I want in a book. —Melissa Broder, author
of SO SAD TODAY and LAST SEXT
Juicy, hard, and sensual.—Femina Magazine
Frank and uninhibited . . . Racy, graphic, funny.—Publishers
Weekly
An honest view of a sticky love affair. . . . Garrett''''s
translation of Wolkers''''s prose is often lyrical and always
heartfelt; the juxtaposition of poetry with crude language echoes
the narrator''''s passionate love and enormous lust. Turkish
Delight is a serious and artistic literary work. —Shelf
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