Fabricius was born in Bandung, Java. He wrote approximately
60 books, among them many books for children, including De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe (1924), which was reprinted 28 times
as of 2003.
When World War II broke out, Fabricius was living in Antwerp
with his family, and fled to England by way of Saint-Malo. In London he worked
for the Dutch news department of the BBC, first as a news reader and then as a
free-lance correspondent. In the spring of 1945 he was sent to Asia as a
correspondent for
The Times and the BBC, hoping to witness the liberation of
the Indies.
In September 1945 he flew from Singapore to Batavia, and was one of
the first foreign correspondents there. His recollections of a country ravaged
by war and revolution were published in 1947 as Hoe ik Indië terugvond. At the end of 1945 he left, moving to the
United Kingdom by way of French Indo-China, Japan, and the United States.
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