Richard de Nooy

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Richard de Nooy (1965) grew up in South Africa and vowed to travel the world. He didn’t get much further than Amsterdam, where he has lived for the past 25 years. He spends his days writing and translating and staring at the sky, trying to guess where the planes are going. He will be mapping his ignorance of the world’s cities from his desk chair, using his preferred mode of transport; the worldwide web. He hopes readers will excuse his ignorance and help fill the vast gaps in his knowledge with entertaining and enlightening anecdotes about their home towns. Richard de Nooy’s novels have been published in English and Dutch. You’ll find further information on his site www.richarddenooy.com. Photo by Stefanie Grätz

Latest posts

  1. My Father and the Sunflowers — May 3, 2013
  2. You Vee Double-You Ex Why Zzzzz — April 12, 2013
  3. Wandering Art — March 29, 2013
  4. “Hey, they all start with T!” — March 15, 2013
  5. Musical masters painting in perfect unison — February 22, 2013
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Old Person Questions Richard

11
Jan
posted by Richard de Nooy at 10:14 comment View Comments

The new year has galloped off to a great start. My new novel was released (in Dutch) on Tuesday and I spent first week of the year tossing and turning in sleepless anticipation of the radio and TV interviews I babbled my way through on Wednesday. Whenever I have to answer questions about my books,… read more »

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Baby, it’s cold outside

20
Dec
posted by Richard de Nooy at 14:15 comment View Comments

When I left home thirty years ago, my mother gave me a little green booklet. “Don’t open it until you get there,” she said with a smile. “Don’t worry, I won’t,” I replied, because I’d already peeked at the first page, on which she’d written the ominous words: “Your daily dose of Motherly Concern.” I… read more »

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Be Nice Now

06
Dec
posted by Richard de Nooy at 16:54 comment View Comments

“It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.” My friend Tony had this saying pinned to his office notice board for many years. Tony and I shared a job, which meant we usually weren’t in the office together. It also meant I could be very childish and hang up my own… read more »

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Terra Incognita #5 – Chilargentisylvania?

23
Nov
posted by Richard de Nooy at 13:12 comment View Comments

Louis Greenberg, who edits all my blogs, also writes horror stories. He is one half of author S.L. Grey, together with his Siamese writing twin Sarah Lotz. I mention this not because I wish to subject you to a name-dropping gore fest, but because Louis supplied the photos for this week’s blog and because I… read more »

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Mmmadness!

09
Nov
posted by Richard de Nooy at 12:41 comment View Comments

I’m deeply disappointed. As you may remember, I’ve been in a one-sided running battle with the Obsessive Network Planner since I discovered that there are a disproportionate number of KLM destinations starting with K, L and M. But no one seems to care that this villain will stop at nothing until Aalborg, Barcelona and Chicago… read more »

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Terra Incognita No. 4 – Kazandaluxicroatia?

26
Oct
posted by Richard de Nooy at 10:19 comment View Comments

People sometimes come up to me in the street and ask if I’ll ever run out of ideas for my blog or if I ever suffer from writer’s block. My answer is always no, because I can retreat into my own head to explore the many different imaginary worlds inside – weird and wonderful places… read more »

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To L and Back

12
Oct
posted by Richard de Nooy at 13:53 comment View Comments

The Obsessive Network Planner (ONP) has struck again. A couple of weeks back I made the surprising discovery that KLM serves a disproportionate number of destinations starting with the letters K, L and M. Earlier this year, KLM began operating flights to Luanda and Lusaka. Before that, it was Linköping and Lima, and I recently… read more »

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