As a child, Coen would sit on an orange and brown striped sofa in a simple 1970s terraced house, lost in imaginative thoughts, admiring his father, who sat at the dining room table writing short stories on an old typewriter that made far too much noise. While he still enjoys writing short stories, over the years he has noticed that his imagination is simply too big for a single page.
Coen is a writer who likes to move between genres. His first book, Het Zwarte Gat (The Black Hole), will be published by MACC in 2024 and is primarily a story about everyday people struggling with life. But we soon discover that things are not quite as they seem. What sometimes looks like a realistic psychological novel reads mainly like a whodunit, but excursions into science fiction, the supernatural and thriller are not shunned. Nor does he shy away from big themes. Does coincidence exist or is everything already determined, is there life after death or is life actually a big illusion and do space and time only exist through our minds?
Years of work experience in psychiatry are a great source of inspiration and make his characters flesh and blood.
2 August 2025
