Welcome to Mineke Schipper’s website

Mineke Schipper is the author of academic books, essays and novels. For her internationally acclaimed non-fiction book Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet Women in Proverbs from Around the World (Yale University Press 2004) she received the Eureka Award in 2005 for best non-fiction book. It has been translated in a number of languages, such as Chinese, Spanish, German, Arabic, Turkish and Portuguese. Other translations are forthcoming, e.g.Korean and Brazilian.

Mineke Schipper is now working on a new non-fiction book about stories and images in Jewish, Christian and Islamictraditions worldwide.
Provisional title: Adam and Eve Going Global.

Just published: Mineke Schipper, Ye Shuxian, and Yin Hubin. China’s Creation and Origin Myths. Cross-cultural Explorations in Oral and Written Traditions. Boston and Leiden: Brill Publishers 2011 more>>