Mariëtte Haveman
Mariëtte Haveman (b. 1957) is an art historian and writer. She is editor-in-chief of the magazine Kunstschrift and was one of the editors of Studio Secrets, about Dutch artists’ studios from 1200 to the present. Faye Finsbury’s Photo is her first novel. In 1978 Haveman spent a year in London and on her website she writes, ‘There lies the germ of the book Faye Finsbury’s Photo. But Maria van Enschede is not a self-portrait from that period. Her experiences are invented. At best you could say that the book is a heightened, dramatized and completely fictionalized version of a much more ordinary and messy life that was lived in 1978-79.’
