Bureau Schrijfkracht

Welcome to the website of Bureau Schrijfkracht. BS was founded by Paulien Bakker (Amsterdam, 1975).

After finishing my studies in both Journalism and Psychology, I started working at a magazine on personnel management (IntermediairPW) in early 2001. At the end of 2005 I became a freelance journalist, writing for leading Dutch newspapers and magazines, such as De Volkskrant, Vrij Nederland and Flow.

As a psychologist, I like to write about what makes people tick. About dreams, motivations and everything that keeps us from achieving them. I write about people in far flung places who’re otherwise not being heard - Sunni militias in Iraq, a Syrian suicide bomber, or an African journalist struggling under dictatorship.

Apart from writing in depth stories, I also work as a freelance editor-in-chief (www.tijdschriftenmakers.nl). Rather early on in life - I must have been around 11 - I realised that nothing tickles my creativity more than producing/editing/being part of a magazine or booklet (or a report on dinosaurs, as it was at the time...).

Looking for more information? Please contact me at paulien@schrijfkracht.nl

	Sunni militias in Iraq
	Always on the run (Rwanda)
	The last oasis