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The characters: Farah Hafez: Paul Chapelle: Farah Hafez is a 38-year-old journalist with the national newspaper Algemeen Nederlands Dagblad (AND). At the age of nine she escaped her native Afghanistan after her father, Home Affairs Minister Aadel Gailani, lost his life during the communist uprising. Her father's death in 1978, followed less than a year later by that of her mother, put an abrupt and traumatic end to Farah's sheltered childhood. Farah would like to reconnect with her past, but out of fear of being hurt she avoids every opportunity to do so. The discovery of a seriously injured Afghan boy in the woods near Amsterdam serves as an unexpected turning point in Farah’s life. Not only does this lead to her first major piece of investigative journalism, it also forces her to face up to the reality of the childhood she thought she'd lost forever. In the summer of 1968, eighteen-year-old Dutch artist and hippie Isobel Vallent meets American journalist Raylan Chapelle during a student demonstration in a Kabul market square. The protest is broken up by police, but the encounter is the beginning of a passionate love affair. A year later Paul Chapelle is born. Paul is still a child when war correspondent Raylan Chapelle loses his life during one of his assignments. Following in his father's footsteps, Paul becomes a journalist himself, but he's plagued by the fear of never being able to live up to his late father's reputation. He drifts through life, working as a reporter and foreign correspondent in Paris, Athens and Istanbul and then Johannesburg in a futile attempt to feel at home somewhere. As he and Farah get to know each other better, Paul discovers that their childhood past in Kabul connects them in ways he could have never imagined.
Walter Lucius is the pen name of scenarist and producer Walter Goverde. Butterfly on the Storm is his fiction debut. The author has worked as a writer, assistant director and director for the respected Dutch theatre companies Affect, Zuidelijk Toneel and the Blauwe Maandag Compagnie. He also directed drama series, documentaries and news items for television as well as the popular children’s series Klokhuis for nearly a decade. With his own audio-visual company Odyssey Productions, he has carried out a number of projects for various Dutch government agencies, such as the film To The Netherlands about adapting to life in a new homeland. www.walterlucius.com www.facebook.com/walter.lucius.9 Contact for Spanish and Portuguese speaking areas: Ute Körner Literary Agent | Barcelona sandra.rodericks@uklitag.com | www.uklitag.com
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Walter Lucius<br />
is the pen name of scenarist and<br />
producer Walter Goverde.<br />
Butterfly on the Storm is his fiction<br />
debut.<br />
The author has worked as a writer,<br />
assistant director and director for the<br />
respected Dutch theatre companies<br />
Affect, Zuidelijk Toneel and the Blauwe<br />
Maandag Compagnie.<br />
He also directed drama series,<br />
documentaries and news items for<br />
television as well as the popular<br />
children’s series Klokhuis for nearly a<br />
decade.<br />
With his own audio-visual company<br />
Odyssey Productions, he has carried<br />
out a number of projects for various<br />
Dutch government agencies, such as<br />
the film To The Netherlands about<br />
adapting to life in a new homeland.<br />
www.walterlucius.com<br />
www.facebook.com/walter.lucius.9<br />
Contact for Spanish and Portuguese speaking areas:<br />
Ute Körner Literary Agent | Barcelona<br />
sandra.rodericks@uklitag.com | www.uklitag.com
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