Long live me: No man's master, no man's servant

Johan Anthierens (1937-2000) is a journalistic and literary phenomenon with a long, varied and impressive track record. NIEMANDS MEESTER, NIEMANDS KNECHT is an anthology of his impressive but hopelessly scattered textual legacy.

From the several hundred articles, reports, interviews, columns and chronicles that Johan Anthierens wrote from 1959 to 1999 for dozens of Flemish and Dutch daily, weekly and monthly magazines, Brigitte Raskin, in consultation with Karel Anthierens, made a selection of the best and most important texts, unpublished letters and sketches.

With this large-scale project, the compilers of NIEMANDS MEESTER, NIEMANDS KNECHT, want to erect the monument that Johan Anthierens deserves. LEVE MIJ, the autobiographical part of this work, tells his life story and is also a brilliant cross-section of the Flemish press. This book introduces the reader to the exceptional writer that Anthierens was, at times grand or funny, sharp or skittish, but always literary, original, independent and honest.