Willem is born on 08th of May in Assen, the capital city of the province Drenthe-------------------------------------------------------------------Willem has an older sister Ielka van der Sluis. Click here

Willem gets an older brother, Vinayak van der Sluis is adopted from India

Willem goes to the school Vredeveld in Assen

Willem visits India together with his parents, brother and sister

Willem’s father Meent van der Sluis, a politician and writer gets known in The Netherlands because of his theories on Dutch soil reduction which causes earth quakes.

Willem appears on television together with his parents, brother and sister. The TROS TV-SHOW interviews them about adoption.

Willem goes to the CSA in Assen. Willem is chess champion together with the chess team of North-Holland.

Willem begins to write. His short stories are publishes occasionally in a school newspaper. Willem visits the Tjech Republic.

Willem studies journalism in Zwolle.

Willem does a PGCE in Assen.

Willem visits Spain.

Willem goes to North Norway during his studies.
Willem is eligible for election in the local council, gets 225 votes and is placed on the reserve list. Willem is thus the youngest ever eligible person for local elections and gets into the national press of The Netherlands.

Willem’s Mother Trijni van der Sluis publishes her book on Van Gogh and Liebermann. Willem sets up the hotel-restaurant and musem where the famous Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh onced lived in order to paint the province of Drenthe. The family of the murdered Theo van Gogh, and family of the famous painter, visit the Sluis’s family in Assen.

Willem’s father suddenly dies.
Willem gets involved with the Orthopaedic Centre Maasstad in Rotterdam.
Willem visits Hungary.
Willem gets a dog, a Siberian Husky called ‘Lemon’.

Willem visits Greece.Willem becomes a teacher at the primary school ‘de Heerdstee’ in Groningen. At the same time Willem studies Orthopaedics in Groningen.

Willem visits Turkey, Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

Willem moves to London and teaches Dutch at an international school and university.
Willem visits Oman.

Willem visits Ireland.Theo van Gogh is murdered in Amsterdam.

Willem visits Greece.

Willem visits America and the Caribean area.

Willem’s first book, MY STORY –Everybody has a secret is launched in The Netherlands. He writes the book as a result of Theo van Gogh’s murder.

Willem's Website is online : www.willemvandersluis.net.

Willem visits Italy, Ireland, Greece, Norway and Thailand.

Willem moves to Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and works there for an international school

Willem appears as guest in the musical Grease at the ISD Dhaka theatre.

Willem works for the IBO in Cardiff.

Willem gives a lecture on SEN (Special Educational Needs) at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Dhaka.
Willem visits Thailand, Germany, The Netherlands and Greece

Willem meets Arnon Grunberg in Dubai, Mart Smeets in Brussel and Sadet Karabutlut in Amsterdam.

Willem gives a lecture on Guided Reading (Special Educational Needs) at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Dhaka.

Willem visits Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, England, Greece, Bangladesh and Syria.

Willem publishes in Blauwe Maandagen Vol.2

-----Favourite food : Greek

-----Favourite colour : Yellow

-----Favourite number : 38 or 83

-----Best actor : Steve Buscemi

-----Best actress : Eva Gabor and Audrey Tautou

-----Best writer : Godfried Bomans and Franz Kafka

-----Best sportsman of all times : Carl Lewis

-----Car : Citroen Xm en C6

-----TV programme : All in the Family

-----Film : It’s a mad mad mad world

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