Frank Westerman is the author of The Bridge over the Tara (1994), Srebrenica: The Blackest Scenario (1997), as well as The Republic of Grain (1999) and Engineers of the Soul (2002), both of which were awarded prestigious prizes in the Netherlands and became bestsellers. In 2005 Westerman received the Flemish Golden Owl Award for El Negro en ik (El Negro and Me). His previous book, Ararat (2007), was nominated for the first Ryszard Kapuscinski Prize, Poland’s top award for literary reportage. Brother Mendel’s Perfect Horse was published in 2012.
