Hans Koning

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Hans Koning

Born	July 12, 1921

Hans Koning (born Hans Koningsberger in Amsterdam), was one of the youngest sergeants in the British World War II Army. In 1951 he came to the United States from Indonesia. He has since been a reporter for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, the International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, the Groene Amsterdammer, to name a few.

"One of America's most accomplished writers" - George Plimpton
"His style works like dry ice on the mind." - Newsweek
"Extraordinarily stirring" - The New Yorker
"One of the most beautiful (novels) I have read for a long time" - Keith Waterhouse in the New Statesman
"Hans Koning is that rare combination - a masterful story teller with a sense of history" - Howard Zinn
"There has always been something recognizably distinct in Hans Koning's novels: a ruthless spareness in the manner, a kind of passionate desperation in the plot" - Alastair Reid

1 Fiction
2 Non-Fiction
3 Plays
4 Children's Books
5 Translations
6 A Selection of Articles
7 External Links

[edit] Fiction

(until 1972 writing under the name Hans Koningsberger)

The Affair, Alfred Knopf 1958, NewSouth Books 2002 Reprint
An American Romance, Simon and Schuster 1960, NewSouth Books 2002 Reprint
A Walk with Love and Death, Simon and Schuster 1961, NewSouth Books 2003 Reprint
I Know What I'm Doing, Simon and Schuster 1964, NewSouth Books 2005 Reprint
The Revolutionary: a novel, Farrar Straus Giroux 1967
Death of a Schoolboy, Harcourt Brace 1974
The Petersburg-Cannes Express, Harcourt Brace 1975
America Made Me: A Novel, Thunder's Mouth Press 1979
The Kleber Flight, Atheneum 1981
De Witt's war, Pantheon 1983
Acts of Faith, Henry Holt 1986
Pursuit of a Woman on the Hinge of History: A Novel, 1997
Zeeland or Elective Concurrences, NewSouth Books 2001

Many of his novels have also been published in England and Holland; five titles in France, and others in Italian, German, Japanese, etc. Three of his novels have been filmed.

[edit] Non-Fiction

Love and Hate in China McGraw-Hill, l966
Along the Roads of New Russia Farrar Straus Giroux 1967
World of Vermeer Time Life 1967
Amsterdam Time Life 1968
The Future of Che Guevara Doubleday 1971
The Almost World Dial Press 1972
A New Yorker in Egypt Harcourt Brace 1976
Nineteen Sixty-Eight : A Personal Report Norton 1987
Colon: el mito al descubierto. Hans Koning / Published 1991
Columbus: His Enterprise : Exploding the Myth Monthly Review Press 1976, 1991
The Conquest of America : How the Indian Nations Lost Their Continent Monthly Review Press 1993

[edit] Plays

The Blood-Red Cafe
Hermione
A Woman of New York

[edit] Children's Books

The Golden Keys Doubleday 1958

[edit] Translations

The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout (Dutch) New York Review of Books 2002
Carlo Coccioli, Manual the Mexican (French) Simon and Schuster
The Islands by A. Alberts Tuttle Co. 1999

[edit] A Selection of Articles

Spike Helmets for the Youths of America - June 19, 2005
Meanwhile: I must go down to the sea again... - The Intenational Herald Tribune - September 19, 2003
The Vanishing Mystery of a Sea Crossing - The Intenational Herald Tribune - January 24, 2003
ARTS ABROAD; Amsterdam and the Sea Conspire to Build a Neighborhood - New York Times Arts Section. October 15, 2002.
Summoning the Mystery and Tragedy, but in a Subterranean Way - New York Times Arts Section. July 31, 2000.
Still Not Over Over There? - The Nation. August, 1999.
Notes on the Twentieth Century - Atlantic Monthly. September, 1997.
On France's Blessed South Coast - Atlantic Monthly. December, 1996.
Germania Irredenta - Atlantic Monthly. July, 1996.
A French Mirror - Atlantic Monthly. December, 1995.
Letter from Havana - The New Yorker.
Letter from Mexico City - The New Yorker.
China Notes - The New Yorker.
Onward and Upward with the Arts: The Eleventh Edition - The New Yorker.