Amsterdam · Fiction · Poetry
Novelist · Poet · Storyteller
An Amsterdam-based novelist whose debut novel The Unforeseen traces the lives of three women across two continents and several decades — a story of adversity, windfall, and the grace of unexpected closure.
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A novel
This is the story of three women who have to deal with life in all its facets, adversities as well as windfalls and happiness whereby complications and unforeseen events shape their destiny in varying ways.Though faced with difficult situations these women cope in their own specific way with whatever life throws at...
About the Author
Stella Jansen is an Amsterdam-based novelist and poet whose debut novel The Unforeseen was published in 2022. Her second novel, Facing the Music, is forthcoming.
Forthcoming
A novel set on the island of Cyprus in the aftermath of the Turkish invasion, drawing on Stella's own remarkable experiences there.
From the Journal
April 7, 2026
He went to the headquarters of the hastily set-up Red Cross Relief Center in the unoccupied zone of Nicosia, where he learned that his family were safe and had inquired after...
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In the spring of 1975, my first husband, the African-American poet Lee Bridges, met Mr. Curiel, a former Minister of Economy in Surinam. Curiel had founded a charitable...
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