April 26, 2026
Animals United
Dressed to impress – hair slicked back, sharp Italian suit gleaming under the streetlights – Christo looked every bit the man of success. The old friends embraced and sat down...
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Stella
Jansen
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.
Featured Novel
The Unforeseen
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
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
Facing the Music
A novel set on the island of Cyprus in the aftermath of the Turkish invasion, drawing on Stella's own remarkable experiences there.
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April 9, 2026
When everything changes overnight
He went to the headquarters of the hastily established Red Cross Relief Center in the unoccupied zone of Nicosia, where he learned that his family was safe and had inquired...
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