Jan Terlouw: 'We are digging holes on Mars. And clean energy can't?'

He wrote more than twenty-five books, half of them for young people, but actually Jan Terlouw did not want to write at all. He was a mathematician and physicist, did nuclear fusion research and later became a politician - that was more than enough. Besides, writing right-handed (as it was taught at school) was torture for someone who is left-handed. As a result, classics such as War Winter, King of Katoren and The Secret of Letters would never have been written...