Janwillem van de Wetering

Janwillem van de Wetering (Middle name: Lincoln; February 12 1931 -, who uses Janwillem Vandewetering as a "pen and reference name"), is the author of a number of works in English and Dutch; he is particularly noted for his detective fiction. His most popular creations are Grijpstra and de Gier, a pair of Amsterdam police officers who figure in a lengthy series of novels and short stories. He has also written stories for children and nonfiction works. He usually writes in Dutch and then in English; the two versions often differ considerably.

Bibliography

Grijpstra and de Gier novels

• Outsider in Amsterdam, 1975
• Tumbleweed, 1976
• The Corpse on the Dike, 1976
• Death of a Hawker, 1977
• The Japanese Corpse, 1977
• The Blond Baboon, 1978
• The Maine Massacre, 1979
• The Mind-Murders, 1981
• The Streetbird, 1983
• The Rattle-Rat, 1985
• Hard Rain, 1986
• Just A Corpse at Twilight, 1994
• The Hollow-Eyed Angel, 1996
• The Perfidious Parrot, 1997
• The Amsterdam Cops: Collected Stories, 1999 (anthology)
• replaces the anthology The Sergeant's Cat and Other Stories

Children's books

• Little Owl, 1978
• Hugh Pine, 1980
• Hugh Pine and the Good Place, 1981
• Hugh Pine and Something Else, 1983

Other fiction

• The Butterfly Hunter, 1982
• Bliss and Bluster, 1982
• Inspector Saito's Small Satori, 1985 (anthology)
• Murder by Remote Control, 1986 (graphic novel, with Paul Kirchner)
• Seesaw Millions, 1988
• Mangrove Mama and Other Tropical Tales of Terror, 1995 (anthology)
• Judge Dee Plays His Lute: A Play and Selected Mystery Stories, 1997 (anthology; includes the original play Judge Dee Plays his Lute and a selection from other anthologies)

Non-fiction

• The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery, 1971
• A Glimpse of Nothingness: Experiences in an American Zen Community, 1975
• Robert Van Gulik: His Life, His Work, 1988
• Afterzen: Experiences of a Zen Student out on His Ear, 1999

Articles/stories not included in books

• The Way Life Should Be - Maine: coastline on a clean, cold sea. The Nation, September 1, 2003.

Translations

• Alexandra David-Neel and Lama Yongden: The Power of Nothingness. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982 (French to English, with an intodruction by the translator)
• Van de Wetering also translated many books from English to Dutch and two books from French to Dutch.

Unpublished in English

• De doosjesvuller en andere vondsten, 1984 (essays in Dutch)
• Waar zijn we aan begonnen?, 1985 (essays on the stages of life with the psychologist Hans van Rappard)
• Eugen Eule und der Fall des verschwundenen Flohs , 2001 (children's book in German)
• Die entartete Seezunge 2004 (inspired by the World War 2 bombing of Rotterdam and the 9/11 disaster in NYC) (a novel in German)