Jan Wolkers's lyrics & chords

Jan Wolkers (1925-2007) was a Dutch novelist, poet, painter and sculptor whose sex-charged books helped shake off the shackles of postwar conservatism in the Netherlands. His best-known book was “Turkish Delight,” about a stormy relationship between a sculptor and his girlfriend who break up and are reunited shortly before she dies of a brain tumor. It was published in 1969 and has been translated into a dozen languages. In 1973 it was made into a film, directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Rutger Hauer, that was nominated for an Oscar a...read more