Hans Steketee (1959) is an editor at NRC Handelsblad and writes about maritime issues, photography, history, and the countryside. Until 2015, he lived in London with his family as a correspondent for the United Kingdom and Ireland. During that period, roughly the Tony Blair years, he wrote Island Between the Ears (2006), which was shortlisted for the Bob den Uyl Prize, and British for Beginners (2015), about his not-always-successful attempts at mastering the social codes of the island folk. Steketee received the Herman Wekker Prize for journalism about English-speaking countries.
