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Dutch Women Writers
This is a list of women writers born in the Netherlands, or whose writings are closely associated with it. A *Jo van Ammers-Küller (1884–1966), interwar novelist and non-fiction writer *Threes Anna (born 1959), novelist, live performance producer and film director *Simone Atangana Bekono (born 1991), novelist and poet B *Maria Barnas (born 1973), novelist, poet and essayist *Marjolein Bastin (born 1943), children's writer and illustrator *Beatrice of Nazareth (1200–1268), Prior (ecclesiastical), prioress and author of early Dutch prose work ''Van seven manieren van heiliger minnen'' (Seven Ways of Holy Love) *Thea Beckman (1923–2004), children's writer *Nel Benschop (1918–2005), poet *Carli Biessels (1936–2016), children's writer *Anna Blaman (1905–1960), poet and novelist *Marion Bloem (born 1952), Indo (Dutch/East Indian) novelist, non-fiction writer and documentary film producer *Louise Sophie Blussé (1801–1896), non-fiction writer *Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands consists of Provinces of the Netherlands, twelve provinces; it borders Germany to the east and Belgium to the south, with a North Sea coastline to the north and west. It shares Maritime boundary, maritime borders with the United Kingdom, Germany, and Belgium. The official language is Dutch language, Dutch, with West Frisian language, West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland. Dutch, English_language, English, and Papiamento are official in the Caribbean Netherlands, Caribbean territories. The people who are from the Netherlands is often referred to as Dutch people, Dutch Ethnicity, Ethnicity group, not to be confused by the language. ''Netherlands'' literally means "lower countries" i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Burnier
Andreas Burnier, born Catharina Irma Dessaur (3 July 1931 – 18 September 2002) was a Dutch writer. Burnier has published poetry, lectures, books and articles, many of which address homosexuality, in order to emphasize women's problems in a male-dominated society. Literary debut Burnier debuted in the literary magazine ''Tirade'' with her story ''Verschrikkingen van het Noorden''. Along with assuming a new name as a writer, Burnier also assumed the opposite gender. In 1965, she published her first novel, ''Een tevreden lach'' (the title of which translates as something like "A Contented Laugh"). In it she wrote about her homosexuality, a topic that had previously not been widely discussed in Dutch literature. She did not mean to publish this novel at first as she wrote it for herself due to the need of reflection, and she deemed it unfit for publication, but after coming into contact with a manager who worked at Querido, who wanted to read it, it became published. ''Een tevrede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – February or March 1945)Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new light on Anne Frank's last months". AnneFrank.org, 31 March 2015 was a German-born Jewish girl who gained worldwide fame posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in an Amsterdam attic from 1942 until their arrest in 1944. Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929. In 1934, when she was four and a half, Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party gained control over Nazi Germany, Germany. By May 1940, the family was trapped in Amsterdam by the Reichskommissariat Niederlande, German occupation of the Netherlands. Frank lost her G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrica Van Erp
Henrica van Erp (c. 1480 – 26 December 1548), was a Dutch abbess and author of her monastery's Chronicle, making her one of the first historians of 16th-century Netherlands. Biography Henrica van Erp was the daughter of Johan van Erp (knight) and Hildegunda Heins of Heijm. She had a sister Jacoba van Erp, who became abbess of the Cistercian monastery Het Munster in Roermond from 1520 to 1558 or 1559. Her brother Jan van Erp was a "high back" (in Dutch: hoogschout) of 's-Hertogenbosch between 1505 and 1521. Henrica's parents probably placed her in the Benedictine Monastery of Oostbroek (also called the Oostbroek Women's Monastery) in De Bilt when she was a child. About 15 to 20 nuns would have been living there at the time. Oostbroek was one of five monasteries for noble women known to have been established in and around the city of Utrecht at the time. On 15 September 1503 she was elected monastery abbess as confirmed in a deed. She continued to lead her congregation for more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Enquist
Anna Enquist (born 19 July 1945) is the pen name of one of the more popular authors in the Netherlands, Christa Widlund-Broer. She is known for both her poetry and her novels. Biography Born in Amsterdam, Enquist studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, music academy in The Hague and psychology at Leiden University. Her first poems appeared in the journal ''Maatstaf'' in 1988, while her first collection ''Soldatenliederen'' (Soldiers' Songs) was published in 1991, while she was still working as a psychoanalyst. In 1992, she received the C. Buddingh'-prijs for her debut poetry collection. Thereafter she devoted most of her time to literature. On the poetry front, she published six more collections: ''Jachtscènes'' (Hunting Scenes; 1992), ''Een nieuw afscheid'' (A New Goodbye; 1994), ''De tweede helft'' (The Second Half; 2000), ''Hier was vuur'' (Here Was Fire; 2002), ''De tussentijd'' (The Interval; 2004) and ''Nieuws van nergens'' (News from Nowhere; 2010). They have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Durlacher
Jessica Durlacher (; born 6 September 1961) is a Dutch literary critic, columnist and novelist. Her father is the sociologist and writer Gerhard Durlacher, who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. She is married to novelist Leon de Winter and they have two children, Moos and Moon (Solomonica). :nl:Jessica Durlacherbr> accessed October 8, 2006 Jessica Durlacher writes book reviews and columns for several magazines, such as Vrij Nederland. She made her debut as a novelist in 1997 with ''Het Geweten'' (''The Conscience''), following with ''De Dochter'' (''The Daughter'') in 2000. Both novels are about children of Holocaust survivors. Her third novel, ''Emoticon'', was published in 2004. The story is set against the background of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Her novels have been translated into German, Swedish, Russian and Italian. In the fall of 2005 she was a co-professor, together with Johan Snapper and Leon de Winter, at Berkeley of the course titled ''Anne Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Brief Voor De Koning
''The Letter for the King'' (, ) is a children's historical novel by the Dutch writer Tonke Dragt, first published in 1962. Subsequently, ''The Secrets of the Wild Wood'' (), was published in 1965, and a collection of follow-up short stories, ''The Dangerous Window and other stories'' (), in 1979. ''De brief voor de koning'' was chosen as the best Dutch youth book of the latter half of the 20th century. The book has been translated in Danish, English, German, Russian, Greek, Estonian, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Czech, Swedish, Spanish and Catalan. Background Tonke Dragt took an interest in the Middle Ages from a young age and was especially involved in reading classic English chivalric romances. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Dragt worked in a secondary school as a drawing teacher. To keep the students' attention, she told short stories and usually stopped telling at a cliffhanger, after which the pupils were allowed to draw accompa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonke Dragt
Antonia "Tonke" Johanna Dragt (; 12 November 1930 – 12 July 2024) was a Dutch writer and illustrator of children's literature. Her book ''De brief voor de koning'' was chosen by Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek, CPNB as the best Dutch youth book of the latter half of the twentieth century. Biography Childhood in Batavia Antonia Johanna Dragt, better known as Tonke Dragt, was born in 1930 in Batavia on the Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta in Indonesia) as the eldest daughter of a Dutch insurance agent based in Batavia. Dragt was initially called "Tonneke" (Dutch for 'tubby'), a name she disliked "because I was tall and thin". She attended the State Elementary School Menteng 01, Nassau School. Her family environment was creative: her father and one of her sisters were also interested in writing and the Dragt family had their own 'house library'. The inspiration for several of her early novels such as ''De brief voor de koning'' en ''Geheimen van het Wilde Woud'' were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renate Dorrestein
Renate Maria Dorrestein (25 January 1954 – 4 May 2018) was a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist. She started working as a junior journalist for the Dutch magazines ''Libelle'' and ''Panorama''. During the period 1977 - 1982 she published in ''Het Parool'', ''Viva'', ''Onkruid'' and ''Opzij''. Dorrestein published her first novel (''Buitenstaanders'') in 1983. Her sister's suicide had a great influence on her books.Algemeen Dagblad, 23 February 2013, "Paspoort Renate Dorrestein - De winst van iedere crisis is dat alle flauwekul van je afvalt" (in Dutch: author Inge van den Blink) Dorrestein won the ''Annie Romein'' prize in 1993 for her complete body of work. A lot of Dorrestein's books were translated, and they were sold in 14 countries. In September 2017 Dorrestein publicly announced that she was suffering from esophageal cancer. She died on 4 May 2018 at the age of 64. Bibliography * 1976 – ''Voorleesboek voor planten'' () * 1983 – ''Buitenstaanders'' * 1985 – ''Vre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thea Doelwijt
Thea Doelwijt (born December 3, 1938) is a Surinamese-Dutch writer. Life Doelwijt's father was Surinamese and her mother was Dutch. She came to Suriname in 1961 where she worked as a journalist for the newspaper, ''Suriname''. She was editor of the magazine, ''Moetete'' (1968–69). Doelwijt wrote two widely read novels, and in the 1970s and 1980s, she wrote many plays, musicals and cabaret acts, including ''A Fat Black Woman Like Me'' and ''Iris''. She developed several important anthologies and wrote children's books. Doelwijt also contributed to the English-language anthology of Surinamese literature, ''Diversity is power'' (2007). As a writer-in-residence, Doelwijt developed major workshops in Suriname. In 1974, she received the Governor Currie Prize. In 1982, after the December Murders, Doelwijt returned to the Netherlands, and became a full-time writer. In 1989, she received an award for her contribution to Surinamese culture Surinamese culture has strong Culture o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ten Thousand Things
''The Ten Thousand Things'' (original Dutch: ''De Tienduizend Dingen'', 1955) is a novel by the Indo-European novelist and writer Maria Dermoût. The story is a rich tapestry of family life against the exotic, tropical background of the Molucca Islands of Indonesia. Although never explicitly stated, the main setting is probably Ambon Island. The story is structured along geographical themes with four major divisions: the Island itself, the Inner Bay, the Outer Bay, and again the Island. Dermout's omniscient narrator is attempting to make sense of the whole generational saga by carefully reflecting on the wonder of this world while revealing some of the horrible evils that the characters commit. After the publication of the English translation by Hans Koning, ''Time'' magazine listed it as one of the best books of 1958. The title of the book is indirectly derived from the poem Xinxin Ming, which is traditionally (although, according to modern scholarship, probably falsely) attribu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Dermoût
Maria Dermoût (15 June 1888 – 27 June 1962) was an Indo-European novelist, considered one of the greats of Dutch literature and as such an important proponent of Dutch Indies literature. In December 1958 ''Time'' magazine praised the translation of Maria Dermoût's '' The Ten Thousand Things'', and named it one of the best books of the year. Whitney Balliett of ''The New Yorker'' wrote: ''"Mrs. Dermout, in the manner of Thoreau and the early Hemingway, is an extraordinary sensualist. ..in passages of a startling, unadorned, three-dimensional clarity; often one can almost touch what she describes."'' Biography Helena Anthonia Maria Elisabeth Ingerman was born on 15 June 1888 on a sugar plantation in Pati, Java, Dutch East Indies, and educated in the Netherlands. She wrote in Dutch. After completing her education she returned to Java, where she married Issac Johannes Dermoût and became known as Maria Dermoût. She travelled extensively across Java and the Moluccas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
