Three Bags of Ladies Clothes & a Sniper - Scholten, Jaap
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When on 24 February 2022 Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Jaap Scholten went to the border to help a young family from Kyiv. In the weeks and months that follow, he became more and more involved in the conflict. Scholten collected money for drones, traveled with an American sniper in his pickup through the country at war and attended a funeral in Irpin with the director of a Kyiv cake factory. From the American sniper Scholten heard about life at the front and about the mission to save a six-day-old baby from an underground hospital in Mariupol. Three Bags of Ladies Clothes and a Sniper is a…mehr

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When on 24 February 2022 Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Jaap Scholten went to the border to help a young family from Kyiv. In the weeks and months that follow, he became more and more involved in the conflict. Scholten collected money for drones, traveled with an American sniper in his pickup through the country at war and attended a funeral in Irpin with the director of a Kyiv cake factory. From the American sniper Scholten heard about life at the front and about the mission to save a six-day-old baby from an underground hospital in Mariupol. Three Bags of Ladies Clothes and a Sniper is a personal logbook and a unique report of the astonishing courage, resilience and solidarity that the war has unleashed in the Ukrainians.
Autorenporträt
Jaap Scholten, (Enschede, 1963) studied Industrial Design at the Technical University in Delft, Graphic Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy of Arts in Rotterdam (BA), and Social Anthropology at the Central European University in Budapest (MA). He has published seven books: collections of short stories and three novels. His novel, De wet van Spengler (Atlas Contact, 2008), was chosen "novel of the year" in the Netherlands. His latest book, Kameraad Baron (AtlasContact, 2010) is the winner of the Libris History Prize 2011. His novels and short stories are translated into German, French, Hungarian, Croatian. In 2011 Scholten created and presented a six-part television series for the VPRO about hidden worlds in Central and Eastern Europe. He has lived in Budapest since 2003.