Ian Buruma

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ian Buruma
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Dec 28, 1951(1951-12-28)
Age	73
Birthplace	The Hague
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	South Holland
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ian Buruma Biography

Ian Buruma is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on December 28, 1951 in The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands.

Buruma was born and raised in The Hague, Netherlands. His father, Sytze Leonard “Leo” Buruma, was a Dutch lawyer and the son of a Mennonite minister, and his mother, Gwendolyn Margaret “Wendy” Schlesinger, a Briton of German- Jewish descent. He went to study at Leiden University in 1971, and obtained a Candidate degree in Chinese literature and History in 1975. Subsequently, he then performed a postgraduate education in Japanese cinema from 1975 to 1977 at the College of Art (Nichidai Geijutsu Gakko) of the Nihon University (Tokyo, Japan).

Buruma lived in Japan from 1975 to 1981, where he worked as a film reviewer, photographer and documentary filmmaker. During the 1980s, he edited the cultural section of the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong. He later traveled throughout Asia working as a freelance writer. Buruma is a board member of Human Rights in China and a fellow of the European Council of Foreign Relations. Buruma has contributed numerous articles to The New York Review of Books since 1985. He held fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin (1991) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. (1999), and he was an Alistair Horne fellow of St Antony’s College in Oxford, UK. In 2000, he delivered the Huizinga Lecture (on “Neoromanticism of writers in exile”) in the Pieterskerk in Leiden, Netherlands.

Ian Buruma Net Worth

Ian Buruma is one of the richest Writer from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ian Buruma 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ian Buruma (born December 28, 1951) is a Dutch writer and editor who lives and works in the United States. In 2017, he became editor of The New York Review of Books, but left the position in September 2018.

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In April 2012, he was awarded the Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Life at the Princeton Theological Seminary. Buruma has won several prizes for his books, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Theater of Cruelty. He has held a number of editorial and academic positions and has been termed a “well-regarded European intellectual”. He argued in 2001 for wholehearted British participation in the European Union because they were the “strongest champions in Europe of a liberal approach to commerce and politics”. He has been a regular contributor to Project Syndicate since 2001.

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Leone Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Ian Buruma celebrates birthday on December 28 of every year.

Top Facts about Ian Buruma

1. Ian Buruma is a Dutch writer and editor.
2. He was the editor of The New York Review of Books.
3. Buruma has written over a dozen books.
4. His works include “Murder in Amsterdam” and “Year Zero.”
5. He has won numerous awards for his writing.
6. Buruma is a professor at Bard College in New York.
7. He has contributed to various publications, including The Guardian and The New Yorker.
8. Buruma was born in The Hague, Netherlands in 1951.
9. He studied Chinese literature at Leiden University.
10. In 2018, he resigned from his position as editor of NYRB after publishing an article that sparked controversy about #MeToo movement