Jorri Duursma was born in Monaco, lived in France, Indonesia, The Netherlands, Monaco, Dubai, France and again in the Netherlands. She studied Public International Law in Leiden, The Netherlands. Her Ph-D thesis was published by Cambridge University Press. More recent publications were published by Oxford University Press and Harvard International Review. Her first fairy-tale, under the pseudonym Jony Dubosch, entitled Ody, in Dutch language was published in 1983, followed by a publication in Korean, Catalan and Spanish language.