In Conversation With by Bart van Es

Bart van Es (In Conversation With) was born in the Netherlands and grew up in Norway, Dubai, Indonesia and the U.K. He studied English Literature at Cambridge and is now Professor of English at Oxford. His academic books include Shakespeare in Company and Shakespeare’s Comedies. In 2014 van Es began to look into his family’s wartime history, knowing that a Jewish girl, Lien, had lived in hiding with his grandparents during the occupation. He met Lien, now aged 82, and began the first of a series of interviews that formed the basis for The Cut Out Girl; which won the Costa Book of the Year 2018 and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize. Translations are out or forthcoming in fourteen languages.

Bart's work appears in Issue 2 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.