Walter Hes

Walter Hes started life in the Netherlands. His Roman Catholic rigid thinking was shaken up by the unfriendly break-up of his first marriage, emigration to controversial South Africa in the 70s and having to leave two kids to grow up with their mother. More life changing experiences through a second marriage with a protestant and re-emigrating to Brazil where he learnt some hard lessons about living and working in an unfamiliar culture. He finally found the right country to stay when he arrived in Australia in 1982 with his family that now included 2 daughters, one born in South Africa, one in Brazil. All these experiences and entering university in his fifties have opened his ways to many ways of thinking to which his daughters contributed substantially.

After a near-fatal accident while renovating his home, Walter Hes spent many weeks in hospital, followed by months of recovering at home. Bored by inactivity and very frustrated by national and world news stories about politics, wars and environmental disasters, he started fantasizing what he would do to save the world from itself if he was a benevolent dictator.

These thoughts of impossible circumstances slowly developed into stories of possible scenarios. He started to write them down. In his first book Resolve, an accidentally thrown together group of four, manages to convince the US government to use supercomputers to effectively formulate policies. Even the United Nations get inspired to agree to a new constitution and empowered to enforce the peace wherever necessary.

His second book Tenerian World is telling you about an ancient culture that might have existed before the Sahara became a desert and about a future attempt to make the desert fertile again, a huge project that would only be possible in a world after Resolve.