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Hans Koning was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He was a Dutch writer. He was also a prolific journalist, contributing for almost 60 years to many periodicals including The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Harper's, The New Yorker, and De Groene Amsterdammer. He was educated at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Zurich, and the Sorbonne. His first novel, The Affair was published in 1958. He also began writing non-fiction, including Love and Hate in China. Four of his novels were made into films: A Walk with Love and Death, The Revolutionary, Death of a Schoolboy, and The Petersburg-Cannes Express.