Ellis De Keyzer

Ellis De Keyzer writes about the people who keep the machine running and the ones it grinds up.

The fiction explores how ordinary complicity enables extraordinary violence. How systems protect power. How survival requires compromise. How the global economy runs on bodies nobody counts.

Set in places Western readers prefer as backdrops rather than realities - the forgotten edges of empire - the work refuses the comfort of heroes or redemption.

Based in Belgium. Teaching history. Writing in English and Dutch. Not believing in happy endings because the evidence suggests otherwise.