In The Dutch Mountains (novel)
''In the Dutch Mountains'' is an album by The Nits. It was released in October 1987 by Columbia Records. About the album After the release of their meticulously assembled and produced previous album, ''Henk'' (1986), which ended up sounding somewhat lifeless, the band decided to go back to basics and record this, their next album, live to multitrack recording, two-track in their own rehearsal space to, in their own words, "reproduce the special atmosphere of a Nits concert". As a result, the songs sound far more sparkling without becoming rough or rushed. Lyrically, singer Hofstede delves into his childhood memory, memories, conjuring up a vision of childhood life in the Netherlands in the 1950s and 1960s. The album cover reflects this, featuring actual historical Children's Benefit postage stamp, stamps. Even though they resemble young versions of all four band members, they are in fact real Dutch stamps from 1951. ''In the Dutch Mountains'' was the Nits' most successful alb ...
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Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom (; born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel ''Rituelen'' (''Rituals'', 1980), which received the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press of the United States. LSU Press published his first two novels in English in the following years, as well as other works through 1990. Harcourt (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and Grove Press have since published some of his works in English. Nooteboom has won numerous literary awards and has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. Life Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom was born on 31 July 1933 in The Hague, Netherlands. His father was killed there in the 1945 bombing of the Bezuidenhout during World War II. After his mother remarried in 1948, his Catholic stepfather enrolled Nooteboom in several religious secondary schools ...
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