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Claudia van der Sluis

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in Amsterdam, Netherlands

October 11, 1963

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Spirituality, Nonfiction, Fiction

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Claudia van der Sluis (Amsterdam, 1963) grew up in a middle class family. Her parents ran a small restaurant in the center of Amsterdam in the seventies. She describes her childhood as carefree and happy, with two loving parents and a younger brother, Paul. “Everything was possible," she says of that time. "And we were terribly spoiled. The sky was the limit in our home, it was very important to enjoy life alongside the hard work and our parents supported everything we did."

She thanks her free childhood that her career took an erratic and fascinating course. After high school she worked at the PTT (now KPN) in Amsterdam and followed the cooking school at the Elandsgracht in Amsterdam. She was twenty-four when her son Alessandro was born (19 Claudia van der Sluis (Amsterdam, 1963) grew up in a middle class family. Her parents ran a small restaurant in the center of Amsterdam in the seventies. She describes her childhood as carefree and happy, with two loving parents and a younger brother, Paul. “Everything was possible," she says of that time. "And we were terribly spoiled. The sky was the limit in our home, it was very important to enjoy life alongside the hard work and our parents supported everything we did."

She thanks her free childhood that her career took an erratic and fascinating course. After high school she worked at the PTT (now KPN) in Amsterdam and followed the cooking school at the Elandsgracht in Amsterdam. She was twenty-four when her son Alessandro was born (1987), whom she has raised alone for the most part.

Claudia started writing by accident, after she was forced to abort her career as a cook. A vacancy in the newspaper ensured her first steps as a writer: romantic novels for publisher Favoriet. She had a lot of fun with making up the plots. "I do not know how much I have written, but there are certainly over 30 publications in the five years that I've done it. I made up creative plots and often didn’t know beforehand how it would run, but I always managed to make a good story. To get in the mood, I made boards with cut out pictures of ideal couples and then my imagination began to work itself. "

Because she wanted to write for children, Claudia began training at Script+ in Amsterdam. Her first children's book was published in 1996 by Publisher Sjaloom: Mijn vader is een wolkenman and was translated into German as Mein Vater ist ein Wokenmann, quickly followed by the youth novel Zeep! (soap).
Almost simultaneously appeared Hoera, ik mag trakteren with Tirion publishers, a hobby book.

In 1997 she got a job as an editor at the magazine Vriendin and put writing books aside for a while. "My life was an everyday madhouse. I traveled around the Netherlands, sometimes had ten pages in a week to work on and took care of my son. Then there were the press trips to travel abroad and the many wine tastings as culinary editor because that was one of my duties. It was a great time, I enjoyed it plenty." In that time she met her new partner.

Only in 2001 there appeared another book, this time in a completely different genre, published by Schors publishers: Modern Witches.
"Not an odd choice for me to write about spiritual subjects because I did fortunetelling with Tarot since I was twenty and I explained dreams for as long as I can remember, later even in various magazines. I got deeper into astrology. Also, I got it from home. My father did astrology and tarot and my mother, like all of us in the family, was very sensitive and spiritually developed. "
‘Het grote boek van de Maan’ (Das magische Buch vom Mond) appeared in 2002 followed by De vier elementen (Die Reihe der Vier Elemente) in 2003, immediately translated into German. Modern Witches (Alte Traditionen, Moderne Hexen) eventually sold for more than 40,000 copies.

In 2000 she started an IT company with her partner and Claudia learned Photoshop and web design. As a writer and freelance journalist she was always busy, though the company demanded more and more of her time and attention. She interviewed many celebrities like Marlies Dekkers (fashion designer), Tom Egbers (soccer commentator), and Manfred Kets de Vries (leadership). "Sometimes my fear of failure made me humble and scared, then I would think: today or tomorrow everybody will know that I am not really skilled and just doing something."
After her divorce in 2007 she moved to Sicily to live and work there. She wrote her books Kogelvis en Gestalkt after the popular television series Flikken Maastricht for Karakter publishers, released in 2008, as well as her latest hobby book Lange halskettingen (Long Necklaces), again with Publisher Tirion (now bankrupt).
At this moment Claudia works on a novel about her time in Palermo ...more

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Average rating: 4.11 · 179 ratings · 7 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	Moderne heksen 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gestalkt (Flikken Maastricht #3) 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Erde - Die Reihe der vier Elemente, Teil 1 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Het element Water 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Het grote boek van de Maan: maanmagie - over de energie, de wijsheid en de invloed van de maan op het dagelijks leven 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Luft - Die Reihe der vier Elemente, Teil 4 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Feuer - Die Reihe der vier Elemente, Teil 3 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De Secretaresse 2.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mijn vader is een wolkenman by Claudia van der Sluis (Goodreads Author), Alex de Wolf (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De glazenwasser 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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De kant van Swann (Marcel Proust - Op zoek naar de verloren tijd Book 1)

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“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

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“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

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“Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land”
― Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems

tags: forgetting, heartbreak, inspirational, living, love, moving-on

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“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion

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