marijn sillis

Marijn Sillis is a freelance journalist and author, mainly writing indept stories for 20+ news papers and magazines in Belgium. He has an eye for untold stories. As the former editor in chief of Antwerp based youth news organization StampMedia, he has a penchant for vulnerable youngsters and diversity, and yes: soccer too. Marijn wrote ‘you not shoot, we not shoot’, a book about the Christmas Truce during World War I, when the Germans and the Allied Forces played a soccer game together. A poignant story of a little peace during the Great War. A glimpse of humanity in the chaos. Now that’s the kind of journalism we like.

For the last couple of years Marijn has been traveling to Lebanon, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Poland, Abchazië, Nagorno-Karabach and Ukraine.  Marijn also hitchhiked through the Kurdish Autonomous Region (North Iraq) where he spent some time in a Syrian refugee camp. Armed with a note block he spent five days in prison in Mechelen, and ‘celebrated’ New Year in a palliative care center.

After traveling the world for a year, Marijn is working on new books and reports.

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