Geert Mak

Geert Ludzer Mak (born 4 December 1946 in Vlaardingen) is a Dutch journalist and non-fiction writer.

For his book In Europe: Travels through the Twentieth Century, he received the Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäische Verständigung (2008)[1] and the Otto von der Gablentz Prize (2009).

In 1999, to mark the end of the century, Mak spent an entire year crisscrossing Europe for NRC Handelsblad and published a travel report each day on its front page.

[7] In the autumn of 2007, VPRO released a television adaptation of In Europe, in the form of a series spread across two seasons, 35 episodes in total, presented by Geert Mak.

The series prompted some historians to point to a number of errors and comment that the makers were ill-informed about the current debates in the field of history.