Joost de Vries

Joost de Vries (b. 1983) studied journalism and history in Utrecht. Since 2007 he has been an editor and literary critic at De Groene Amsterdammer . Clausewitz was successful partly because of the vehement, strongly contrasting reactions it evoked, and the first 10,000 copies sold rapidly. In his cool, humorous response to that success, De Vries resembles the hero of his novel. In an interview he said: ‘Great for my student debt.’