Helping new perspectives and worlds of experience be heard

“Jakes Gerwel embodied, in life, the most vivid dream for what literature can make of us: empathic, justice focused, engaged, humane, flexible, broad thinking, service oriented and fair minded. He was a books person who was a living advert for the ennobling art of reading.

It is in this spirit that the Jakes Gerwel Foundation contributes towards nurturing the country’s writerly talent through Paulet House.” Karin Schimke