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Jan Siebelink
Dutch writer
Jan Geurt Siebelink (born 13 February 1938 in Velp, Gelderland) is a Dutch author. In 2005, he wrote the novel Knielen op een bed violen (literally Kneeling on a Bed of Violets , translated into English as In my father's garden[1])[2] that sold over 700,000 copies. In 1991, he won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for De overkant van de rivier.