Career
Bakker is a gardener by trade, having acquired his gardening license in 2006. He says writing and gardening are compatible. Bakker works as a skating instructor in winters.
He commented "in the autumn when I rake the dead leaves I can do it for hours – once I even disturbed a pile I"d made so I could go on raking.
The sound is so wonderful: it lets you think in a subconscious way, in the back of your mind. He has previously as a subtitler for Dutch television, particularly on the United States. soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.
Bakker has said: "They blabber and blabber, but you only have seven seconds for a subtitle on screen. That"s what The Bold and the Beautiful taught medical
I learned to leave things out." Among his favourite books are The Sea, the Sea, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, Winnie-the-Pooh and The Wind in the Willows.
He dislikes flying. He is renovating a house in Germany, complete with garden, writing cabin and veranda. M. The Detour June.