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 in 2005 the Eureka Award for best non-fiction book. Since the book came out in both English and Dutch in 2004, it has been translated in a number of languages, among which Chinese, Spanish, German and Arabic. Other translations are forthcoming, e.g. Korean, Brazilian and Turkish.

Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee praised her most recent novel Vogel valt vogel vliegt (“Bird Falls Bird Flies” Amsterdam: Prometheus 2007) as the “absorbing story of  the growth of adult love, and the letting go of past love, in the shadow of America’s imperial wars.”
She now works on a book about how the very first people came into being in creation myths from around the world. It will be published in 2010.Title: In the beginning there was nobody.  Read more>>