Author and professor Leonard Diepeveen’s memoir WHEN I COME BACK WE WILL TALK, a son’s powerful and deeply moving examination of how six weeks of camp imprisonment in 1945 rippled through the following 80 years of his family life, for readers of Unearthing and The Pendulum, to Kelsey Attard at Freehand Books, for publication Fall 2026, by Pieter Swinkels at Transatlantic Agency (Canada). Dutch rights in a pre-empt to Patricia de Groot at Querido by Marianne Schonbach at Schonbach Agency on behalf of Pieter Swinkels.
Diepeveen’s writing is as much a tender pressing to understand his father’s life as a survivor and immigrant as it is an intriguing examination of memory and self, and how to find meaning in the “burrs of reality” that shape family histories.
Leonard is represented by Pieter Swinkels.
Congratulations, Leonard!