Fiction. Leon de Winter is one of the Netherland's youngest writers and of his contemporaries the only one who can boast of an oeuvre: four novels and a collection of short stories. Born in 1954 of Jewish parents in the Catholic town of Hertogenbosch (famed for its earlier son, Hieronymus Bosch), De Winter went to Amsterdam in 1974 to study at the Dutch Film Academy. He dropped out after a few years and set up his own film company along with two friends. To date they have produced a number of television documentaries and three feature films, the first of which was based on De Winter's first novel. His latest film, FRONTIERS (starring Angela Winkler), marks his international breakthrough. De Winter wrote the stories in this volume when he was 19 and 20.