Meet the author
Floortje Sanders
Amsterdam roots. A love of storytelling. A feel for the complicated business of starting over.
Floortje SandersA city she knows.
People you’ll want to meet.
Floortje Sanders grew up in Amsterdam and knows the city beyond its postcard views. A former actress and theater director, she made her fiction debut with Hotel Happiness in 2022.
Her storytelling brings together warmth, humor, and the emotional complications of an adult life. In Hotel Happiness, Lana arrives in Amsterdam carrying the hurt of a betrayal—and discovers a circle of people who make a different future seem possible.
The novel was followed by Zomer in Hotel Happiness. Discover her debut novel, being prepared for English-language readers as Amsterdam Hotel Happiness.
Discover Hotel HappinessFrom stage to page
The pleasure of a good story.
Before her fiction debut, Floortje worked as an actress and theater director. Those are the verified professional roots behind this introduction. Her Amsterdam upbringing is part of the setting readers encounter in her work.
For an introduction to the book and the people in Lana’s new life, begin with The Book. For a little more atmosphere and reading context, visit the Journal.
Biographical and original-publication facts are drawn from the author’s original Dutch publisher profile. English edition announcements will appear here as they are confirmed.
Amsterdam Hotel Happiness
A little escape.
A story with heart.
Meet Lana and the people who make a new city feel like possibility.
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