Jan Geurt Siebelink (born 13 February 1938 in Velp, Gelderland) is a Dutch author. In 2005, he wrote the novel Knielen op een bed violen (literally Kneeling on a Bed of Violets, translated into English as In my father's garden) that sold over 700,000 copies. In 1991, he won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for De overkant van de rivier. Source: Wikipedia (en)