About
Fred de Vries is a Dutch freelance writer who has published six non-fiction books on subjects ranging from the 80s underground scene to the position of the Afrikaner in contemporary South Africa and the fall from grace of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius. His writing can regularly be found in Dutch magazines such as De Groene Amsterdammer, Elsevier Magazine and Platenblad.
De Vries was born in 1959 in the Dutch port of Rotterdam. He holds a Masters in Human Geography of the Developing Countries, as well as a post-Doctoral degree in Journalism. He worked as the Africa editor for de Volkskrant daily and as the Rotterdam correspondent for the same newspaper.