Hans Koning (born Hans Koningsberger in Amsterdam), was one of the youngest sergeants in the British World War II Army. In 1951 he came to this country from Indonesia. He has since reported for The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The New Yorker, Harpers Magazine, The Nation and The Atlantic Monthly, and his many books have received much critical praise. NewSouth Books considers it an important literary event to put his considerable fiction output, twelve novels, back in print.

• "One of America's most accomplished writers" - George Plimpton
• "His style works like dry ice on the mind." - Newsweek
• "Extraordinarily stirring" - The New Yorker
• "One of the most beautiful (novels) I have read for a long time" - Keith Waterhouse in the New Statesman
• "Hans Koning is that rare combination - a masterful story teller with a sense of history" - Howard Zinn
• "There has always been something recognizably distinct in Hans Koning's novels: a ruthless spareness in the manner, a kind of passionate desperation in the plot" - Alastair Reid

THE KONING REPRINT SERIES:
NEWSOUTH BOOKS has embarked on a reprint of Koning's past novels. The first two titles, The Affair, and An American Romance, were published in the spring and fall of 2002. Next came A Walk with Love and Death (made into a motion picture by John Huston in the year 1970), followed by I Know What I'm Doing and The Petersburg-Cannes Express. The Kleber Flight, originally published in 1981, was relased in the fall of 2006.

LITERARY DISCORD:
Running monthly on WPKN RADIO (89.5FM) for six years, Koning's show was on books and book publishing. “Literary Discord” introduced listeners to such worthy authors and poets as Benjamin DeMott, Russell Banks, Kate Finley and The Nation’s Literary Editor, Art Winslow. A selection of archived copies may be heard on this website or on The Radio Project website.

ONLINE SERIES:
Click here to read Hans Koning's Little Book of Comforts & Gripes