Jeroen Windmeijer

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Biography

Windmeijer was born in Delft. He grew up in Pijnacker. After completing his high school education, he studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and, after completing his propaedeutic year, studied Social Anthropology and Sociology of Non-Western Societies at Leiden University. For his graduation research, he lived for six months in a small village of the Bolivian Aymara Indians on the shores of Lake Titicaca, situated at 4,000 meters, on the border of Bolivia and Peru. In 2001 he obtained his PhD at Leiden University and the Amsterdam Center for Studies and Documentation of Latin America (CEDLA). He spent fourteen months in the town of Otavalo, located in the highlands of northern Ecuador. This resulted in the dissertation De vallei van de rijzende zon: Een studie naar de voorbeeldige indianen uit Otavalo, Ecuador. This dissertation appeared in a popular edition in 2004 under the title Poncho’s, panfluiten en paardenstaarten: Indiaanse handelsreizigers en straatmuzikanten uit Otavalo, Ecuador. The Spanish translation - entitled El valle amanecido: un estudio de los indígenas ejemplares de Otavalo, Ecuador - was published in 2016.

Windmeijer debuted in June 2015 at the Leiden publishing house Primavera Pers with the literary thriller De bekentenissen van Petrus. On the occasion of the 170th anniversary of confessional education in Leiden, the mini-thriller A straw letter was published by the Confessional Education Leiden Foundation (SCOL) in a limited edition of 1,500 copies. In 2017 he appeared at the publisher HarperCollins Holland Het Pauluslabyrint, followed in 2018 by Het Pilgrim Fatherc Complot. Both in De bekentenissen van Petrus, Het Pauluslabyrint and Het Pilgrim Fathers complot, the main character is archaeologist Peter de Haan, affiliated with Leiden University. In 2019 he published De Offers, the first part of what should become a Latin American trilogy. Part 2, De Bezoekers (2020), plays in Peru and part 3, De Vloed (2021), in Guatemala.

De bekentenissen van Petrus – The confessions of St. Peter

In June 2015 he debuted with the literary thriller De bekentenissen van Petrus. According to tradition, the apostle St. Peter died in Rome, but there is no historical evidence for that. The author is in line with another tradition that states that Jesus' most important student - the patron of the "key city" of Leiden - would have left for England. Central to the book is a correspondence between Judas and Peter, who throws a whole new light on the last hours of Jesus and on the origins of Christianity.

Een strooien brief – A straw letter

On the occasion of the 170th anniversary of confessional education, the mini-thriller A straw letter was published by the Confessional Education Leiden Foundation (SCOL) in a limited edition of 1,500 copies. Central to the book is the fusion between a Roman Catholic school and Christian Protestant school in Leiden - a merger of two religious movements that are met with resistance from some people.

Het Pauluslabyrint – St. Paul’s labyrinth

In March 2017, he published Het Pauluslabyrint. Both in De bekentenissen van Petrus and in Het Pauluslabyrint, the main character is a Leiden archaeologist Peter de Haan, affiliated with the university there. For centuries, persistent rumors have been circulating in Leiden about an extensive tunnel system under the city. Some tunnels were said to have been dug during the Spanish Siege of Leiden (1573-1574). Hungry residents are said to have dug tunnels beyond the Spanish lines to provide food for the population. In the novel, archaeologists do indeed encounter a tunnel during excavation work. This is the start of a story in which the apostle St. Paul and his role in the emergence of Christianity are central.

Het Pilgrims Fathers Complot – The Pilgrims Conspiracy

The Pilgrim Fathers complot was published in August 2018, concluding the so-called "Leiden trilogy". In 2020 it will be 400 years ago that the Pilgrim Fathers left Leiden after an 11-year stay (1609-1620). Via Delfshaven they sailed to Plymouth (England) to depart from there with the ship the Mayflower to America. The Pilgrims were English Puritans who had fled England because they were persecuted by King James I for their faith. The book has 40 chapters - just as many as the years that the people of Israel roamed the desert according to the Bible book of Exodus on their way to the Promised Land. The Freemasons also play an important role in the book, which takes place not only in Leiden, but also in Boston (USA) and in the Egyptian Sinai desert.

De offers – The sacrifices

De offers (2019) is the first part of the so-called Latin America Trilogy. The story plays on the Bolivian Altiplano. A dead boy is found in a small community of Aymara Indians on the shores of Lake Titicaca. It seems to have been killed in a ritual way. The Dutch student Luc van Os from Wageningen, who is doing an internship at the agricultural university of Tiahuanaco, and his Indian colleague Nayra Mamani are unintentionally involved in this case.

Publications

2001 – De vallei van de rijzende zon: Een studie naar de voorbeeldige indianen uit Otavalo, Ecuador (University of Leiden, Leiden) 2004 – Poncho’s, panfluiten en paardenstaarten: Indiaanse handelsreizigers en straatmuzikanten uit Otavalo, Ecuador (Aksant Uitgeverij, Amsterdam) 2015 – De bekentenissen van Petrus (Primavera Pers, Leiden) 2016 – Een strooien brief (SCOL, Leiden) 2016 - El valle amanecido: un estudio de los indígenas ejemplares de Otavalo, Ecuador (Abya-Yala, Ecuador) 2017 – Het Pauluslabyrint (HarperCollins Holland) 2018 – Het Pilgrim Fathers complot (HarperCollins Holland) 2018 – St. Paul’s Labyrinth (HarperCollins UK) 2019 – La biblioteca dei labirinti (Newton Compton Editori, Italy) 2019 – De Offers (HarperCollins Holland) 2019 – Das Pauluslabyrinth (HarperCollins Germany) 2019 – The Pilgrims Conspiracy (HarperCollins UK)

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