Martin Michael Driessen

Martin Michael Driessen is a Dutch opera and theater director, translator, and writer. He is the author of the novels Gars, Father of God, A True Hero, Rivers (which was awarded the prestigious ECI Literature Prize), an The Pelican. Writing as Eva Wanjek, he cowrote the novel Lizzie with highly acclaimed and prize-nominated poet Liesbeth Lagemaat. In 2018 he published a collection of short stories, My First Murder. His work has been translated into English, Italian, German, Spanish, Slovenian, and Hungarian. For more information, visit www.martinmichaeldriessen.com.