Rita Dulci Rahman is Dutch born in Aruba, Dutch Antilles. In 1970, she won a literacy prize Van der Rijn—prize in the Netherlands—for her debut collection of short stories. Between 1973 and 1979, she published a number of children books and in 1983 she wrote a column for a newspaper in the Netherlands before publishing her first novel in 2001, Love’s Perfumes. The novel has been published in Dutch (In de Knipscheer) and English (Penguin).
Besides fiction, Rita Dulci Rahman is co-author (together with Jose Miguel Andreu) of a number of non-fiction books on global, socio-economic issues (2001: Financing Development for Human Security; 2004: Responsible Global Governance; 2005: Overcoming the EU crisis; 2006: China and India, towards global supremacy? and 2009: Global Democracy for sustaining Global Capitalism). Rita Dulci Rahman is a career diplomat, currently posted as Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Dominican Republic and for Haiti.
Jose Miguel Andreu is a Spaniard born in Bilbao, and professor of macroeconomic at the University of Sevilla. Love and Death in Saving Europe is his first fiction book, but his non-fiction writing dates back to 1970. Between 1980 and 1999, he published a number of books on macroeconomic issues for University students in Spain, of which his book on banking is most famous. From 2001 onward, he has been writing on global, socio-economic issues (together with Rita Dulci Rahman) projecting possible solutions for contemporary global, socio-economic problems (2001: Financing Development for Human Security; 2002: A federation with Enlargement for European Prosperity; 2004: Responsible Global Governance; 2005: Over-coming the EU crisis; 2006: China and India, towards global supremacy? and 2009: Global Democracy for sustaining Global Capitalism).