During the signing sessions in the book stores in Haarlem and Heemstede, the writer takes all the time for his fans. Because often it is people who know him from his walks with the dog through the city, where he wrote on Facebook before he really came to write the books.
After winning the honorary price, where booksellers chose his book as the best of the year, his work is even more popular. The common thread of his stories is based on his own traumatic youth experience of rape.
“The openness and the vulnerability, I think it’s really most beautiful,” says a young fan of him as Lex puts a signature in her book.