Daan Heerma van Voss
Daan Heerma van Voss (b. 1986) is a historian and author.
He has written for several national and international newspapers, such as The New York Times, Vogue US, Pen International, Haaretz (Israel), Dissidentbloggen (Sweden) and Svenska Dagbladet. His novels have been shortlisted for a number of prizes and he was awarded De Tegel for extraordinary journalistic achievements. His much-acclaimed novel The Last War (2016) has been translated into German, Spanish, Swedish and Chinese. The Anxiety Project is his first major work of non-fiction.
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Daan Heerma van Voss
The Anxiety Project
When Dutch novelist and historian Daan Heerma van Voss finds himself in yet another break-up because he is just too anxious to be with, he sets out to unearth the roots of his deepest fears. He is not alone though: 264 million people suffer from anxiety, and this number is growing every day. Digging more deeply, Heerma van Vos wonders whether our genes have something to do with it. What is the link between anxiety and creativity? And how can you love another when you are in a constant state of fear?
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No Goodbye Today
‘Someone is already going to die in this chapter,’ the nameless narrator cautions on the very first page of No Goodbye Today. En route to his holiday destination, Oskar van Bohemen collapses at Schiphol Airport, which turns out to be a place of departure in more ways than one. From there, we follow his three grown children, who each had their own difficult relationship with him and experience his death in very different ways.