His Name is David

'A tale of forbidden love set in WWI Flanders' The Guardian His Name Is David was chosen as Book of the Month by the influential Dutch talk show DWDD, and has sold 30,000 copies in the Netherlands and Belgium. Best-selling, prize-winning author Historical settingFlanders WWI Great for book clubs. Book club discussion guide available. Stefan Hertman's award-winning book War and Turpentine is the only contemporary novel by a Belgian writer available in the US. Of the top 10 living Belgian writers, World Editions is publishing 5 it's a moment to celebrate a whole countries literary output World Editions is planning a one-month Belgian-Literature promotion around Flander's Day (July 11 2019) with a blog tour, review coverage, author interviews and events The author has a tragic personal background which is reflected in his writing. When asked why he writes, this is what he answered: "It all started with the death of a mother. I was sixteen and hanging around, waking up and going to sleep in a dark house. The will to become someone or something had abandoned me and the very question of existential meaning was shoved down my throat the hard way. But I didn't write back then. I read. And read. So I could breathe and forget. Only eighteen years later I picked up writing. Boy, did I like it. With one single act, the act of writing, I became someone and something and the question of the meaning of my existence got answered. I was named a writer at the age of thirty-six, but I became one the day my mother died."

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