Hans Koning

Hans Koning
Hans Koning
Occupation(s)	Writer and journalist

Hans Koning (born Hans Koningsberger) (July 21, 1921 - April 13, 2007), was one of the youngest sergeants in the British World War II Army. In 1951 he came to the United States from Indonesia. He has since been a writer of over 40 fiction and non-fiction books, he was also a prolific journalist, writing for almost 60 years for The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Harper's, The New Yorker, and the De Groene Amsterdammer.

"One of America's most accomplished writers" - George Plimpton
"His style works like dry ice on the mind." - Newsweek
"Extraordinarily stirring" - The New Yorker
"One of the most beautiful (novels) I have read for a long time" - Keith Waterhouse in New Statesman
"Hans Koning is that rare combination - a masterful story teller with a sense of history" - Howard Zinn
"There has always been something recognizably distinct in Hans Koning's novels: a ruthless spareness in the manner, a kind of passionate desperation in the plot" - Alastair Reid

Fiction

(until 1972 writing under the name Hans Koningsberger)

The Affair, Alfred Knopf 1958, NewSouth Books 2002 Reprint
An American Romance, Simon and Schuster 1960, NewSouth Books 2002 Reprint
A Walk with Love and Death, Simon and Schuster 1961, NewSouth Books 2003 Reprint
I Know What I'm Doing, Simon and Schuster 1964, NewSouth Books 2005 Reprint
The Revolutionary: a novel, Farrar Straus Giroux 1967
Death of a Schoolboy, Harcourt Brace 1974
The Petersburg-Cannes Express, Harcourt Brace 1975
America Made Me: A Novel, Thunder's Mouth Press 1979
The Kleber Flight, Atheneum 1981
De Witt's war, Pantheon 1983
Acts of Faith, Henry Holt 1986
Pursuit of a Woman on the Hinge of History: A Novel, 1997
Zeeland or Elective Concurrences, NewSouth Books 2001

Many of his novels have also been published in England, Holland, France, Italy, Germany, and Japan. Four of his novels have been filmed.

Love and Hate in China McGraw-Hill, l966
Along the Roads of New Russia Farrar Straus Giroux 1967
World of Vermeer Time Life 1967
Amsterdam Time Life 1968
The Future of Che Guevara Doubleday 1971
The Almost World Dial Press 1972
A New Yorker in Egypt Harcourt Brace 1976
Nineteen Sixty-Eight : A Personal Report Norton 1987
Colon: el mito al descubierto. Hans Koning / Published 1991
Columbus: His Enterprise : Exploding the Myth Monthly Review Press 1976, 1991
The Conquest of America : How the Indian Nations Lost Their Continent Monthly Review Press 1993
Hans Koning's Little Book of Comforts and Gripes 2000
Rene Burri Phaidon Press 2006

The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout (Dutch) New York Review of Books 2002
Carlo Coccioli, Manual the Mexican (French) Simon and Schuster
The Islands by A. Alberts Tuttle Co. 1999

The Intenational Herald Tribune

The New York Times

Amsterdam and the Sea Conspire to Build a Neighborhood - Oct. 2002
Summoning the Mystery and Tragedy, but in a Subterranean Way - Jul. 2000
Don't Celebrate 1492 - Mourn It - Aug. 1990
Why Hollywood Breeds Self-indulgence - Jan. 1981
Free To Go To The Devil - Jul. 1981
Shipping Darwin's Ideas To the Home Screen - Jan. 1980
Films and Plays About Vietnam Treat Everything but the War - May. 1979
Gezellig Amsterdam: 'Cozy and Convivial' - Mar. 1978
There Exists in The 20th Century A 19th-Century Dictatorship, And Its Name Is Paraguay - Jan. 1974
On Solzhenitsyns in Reverse - Jun. 1974
That Rarest of Birds, a Successful Political Movie - Jun. 1974
Travel Is Destroying a Major Reason for Travelling - Nov. 1974
The Enemy Factor' In New York and 'Civilized' London - Dec. 1973
The Semantics Of War - Feb. 1972
One Fourth of Mankind; One Fourth of Mankind - May. 1967
Deux Simenons - May. 1966
'Pourboire' or 'Trinkgelt' or 'Mancia' - Apr. 1960
Letters That Say, 'I Love You'; The heart speaks eloquently in these letters collected in honor of St. Valentine's Day - Feb. 1959
The Sparkling Legacy Of Dom Perignon - Nov. 1958
More and More the Cry of 'Track!'; The Cry of 'Track!' - Jan. 1958
A Beachologist's Ten Best List; One man's sand-and-sunspots stretch from Skyros to Saint John via Acapulco - Jul. 1957
A Vote on Europe; Students Polled on Various Countries After Making First Trip Abroad First Survey Other Categories - Oct. 1956

The New Yorker

The Atlantic Monthly

Harpers Magazine

The Nation