Based in Rio de Janeiro, Ineke Holtwijk was Latin America correspondent for over 15 years for, among others, de Volkskrant and national television news. In 1995 she published Cannibals in Rio about life in Brazil, which won her the Golden Donkey Ear (a prize for the best-selling literary debut of the year). That same year her children’s book Asphalt Angels appeared, about a street child in Rio. In 1999 she published Nostalgia for the Horizon, a collection of travel stories about Latin America.