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List Of Dutch-language Writers
This list of Dutch writers includes authors who have written works in the Dutch language. In cases where the writer uses a pseudonym, the real name is added between brackets. Netherlands writers and poets A-B * Bertus Aafjes * Kader Abdolah * Gerrit Achterberg * Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema *Jan van Aken * Joseph Albert Alberdingk Thijm * Arnold Aletrino *Robert Anker *Jan Arends * A. C. Baantjer *Marijn Backer *Sevtap Baycılı *Beatrice of Nazareth * Thea Beckman *Nicolaas Beets *J. Bernlef (Hendrik Jan Marsman) * Cornelis de Bie * Paul Biegel * Aristide von Bienefeldt * Maarten Biesheuvel *Carli Biessels *J.C. Bloem *Marion Bloem * Godfried Bomans * Ferdinand Bordewijk *Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint *Hafid Bouazza * Menno ter Braak *Hugo Brandt Corstius * Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero * Jan ten Brink *Jeroen Brouwers *Boudewijn Büch * Jacob Buyens van Mol *Conrad Busken Huet C-F *Jan Campert *Remco Campert *Simon Carmiggelt * Jacob Cats * Isabelle de Charr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa. The dialects used in Belgium (including Flemish) and in Suriname, meanwhile, are all guided by the Dutch Language Union. In Europe, most of the population of the Netherlands (where it is the only official language spoken country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaas Beets
Nicolaas Beets (13 September 1814 – 13 March 1903) was a Dutch theologian, writer and poet. He published also under the pseudonym Hildebrand. Life Nicolaas Beets was born in Haarlem, the son of a pharmacist. From 1833 till 1839 he studied theology at the university of Leiden where he received his doctorate. In 1840 he became a minister at the Dutch Reformed Church in Heemstede. In the same year he married Aleida van Foreest. In 1848 he became correspondent of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands, when that became the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1851 he joined as member. In 1854 he moved to Utrecht where from 1874 till 1884 he was a professor in church history at the University of Utrecht. He wrote prose, poetry and sermons. As a poet, Beets came under the influence of Byronism. His most famous work is ''Camera Obscura'', which he wrote under his pseudonym during his student years. Of his poems, "De moerbeitoppen ruischten" is well-known and popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero
Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero (16 March 1585 – 23 August 1618) was a Dutch poet and playwright in the period known as the Dutch Golden Age. Life Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero was born on 16 March 1585 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic, where he lived his whole life. He called himself ''"G.A. Bredero, Amstelredammer"'', and sometimes he is called ''Breero'' or ''Brederode''. He was the third child of Marry Gerbrants and Adriaen Cornelisz Bredero, who was a shoemaker and a successful real estate agent. Bredero was born in the ''Nes'', nowadays number 41, and in 1602 he and his family moved to a house on Oudezijds Voorburgwal, now number 244, which his father had bought. Bredero lived in this house for the rest of his life. Both houses are now restaurants in Amsterdam's famous red light district. At school Bredero learned French and possibly also some English and Latin. Later he was educated as an artist by the Antwerp painter Francesco Badens, but none of his paintings h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Brandt Corstius
Hugo Brandt Corstius (29 August 1935 – 28 February 2014) was a Dutch author, known for his achievements in both literature and science. In 1970, he was awarded a PhD on the subject of computational linguistics. He was employed at the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam. However, to the general public he is mostly known for his writing, in particular as a columnist for Vrij Nederland and de Volkskrant and as linguist and literary critic for Vrij Nederland, de Volkskrant, and NRC Handelsblad. Pseudonyms Hugo Brandt Corstius wrote under over sixty different pseudonyms, allonyms and aliases. He claimed each of them to be a component of his character. In Vrij Nederland he used the pseudonym Piet Grijs and between 1979 and 1986 in de Volkskrant he used the pseudonym Stoker. His other pseudonyms include Battus (in NRC Handelsblad and Vrij Nederland), Raoul Chapkis, Victor Baarn, Dolf Cohen, Maaike Helder, Peter Malenkov and Talisman. The Battus name was reserved for writing on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menno Ter Braak
Menno ter Braak (26 January 1902 – 14 May 1940) was a Dutch modernist writer, critic, essayist, and journalist. Early career Ter Braak was born in Eibergen and grew up in the town of Tiel where he was an exemplary student. He went on to the University of Amsterdam where he majored in Dutch and History. He was a regular contributor to the student magazine Propria Cures and involved himself in the study of film (then a very young discipline). Together with Joris Ivens, Menno ter Braak was also a founder of the ''Filmliga'' (Movie League), an organisation for the study of animated film. He completed a Ph.D. dissertation on the medieval emperor Otto III and consecutively worked as a teacher in a number of secondary schools, lastly in Rotterdam. ''Forum'' movement In 1932 ter Braak, together with Eddy du Perron and , started the literary magazine ''Forum'' which proved to be one of the most important literary periodicals in the Dutch-speaking world (it expressly involved Fle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hafid Bouazza
Hafid Bouazza ( ar, حفيظ بوعزة, ḥafīẓ būʿazza; 8 March 1970 – 29 April 2021) was a Moroccan-Dutch writer. Born in Oujda, Morocco, Bouazza came to the Netherlands in October 1977 as a seven-year-old boy. He lived with his parents in the village Arkel, near Gorinchem, until he went to study Arabic language and literature at the University of Amsterdam. He received the E. du Perron prize for his 1996 debut ''De voeten van Abdullah (The feet of Abdullah)''. Later works include ''Momo'' and ''Solomon'', in 2001 ''Een beer in bontjas'' ("A bear in a fur coat"); the play adaptions ''Apollien'', ''De slachting in Parijs'' ("The massacre in Paris") and Othello; and ''Het monster met de twee ruggen : een kameropera'' ("The beast with two backs: a libretto"). Bouazza gave the 2002 Mosse Lecture, titled ''Homoseksualiteit en Islam'' (''Homosexuality and Islam''). His 2004 novel ''Paravion'' won the 2004 Golden Book-Owl prize. His novel ''Spotvogel'' appeared in 2009, afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint
Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (September 16, 1812April 14, 1886) was a Dutch novelist. Life and career Geertruida Toussaint was born in Alkmaar, Netherlands, on 16 September 1812. Her father, a pharmacist of Huguenot descent, gave her a fair education, and at an early period of her career she developed a taste for historical research, fostered by a forced indoor life as a result of weak health. Her first romance, ''Almagro'', appeared in 1837, followed by ''De graaf van Devonshire'' ("The Earl of Devonshire") in 1838; ''De Engelschen te Rome'' ("The English at Rome") in 1840, and ''Het Huis Lauernesse'' ("The House of Lauernesse") in 1841, an episode of the Reformation that has been translated into many European languages. These stories, mainly founded upon some of the most interesting epochs of Dutch history, betrayed a remarkable grasp of facts and situations, combined with an undoubted mastery over her mother tongue, although her style is sometimes involved and no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Bordewijk
Ferdinand Bordewijk (10 October 1884 – 28 April 1965) was a Dutch author. His style, which is terse and symbolic, is considered to belong to New Objectivity and magic realism. He was awarded the P. C. Hooft Award in 1953 and the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1957. ''Character'' (1997), an Academy Award-winning film directed by Mike van Diem, was based on his novel of the same name (1938). Biography Ferdinand Bordewijk was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and moved to The Hague when he was ten years old. He studied law at Leiden University. After graduation, he worked first at a Rotterdam law firm and became an independent lawyer in Schiedam in 1919, remaining an inhabitant of The Hague all of his life. He was married to the composer Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman. He wrote the libretto for her opera ''Rotonde'' (1941). Works His first published work was a volume of poetry titled ' (Mushrooms) under the pseudonym Ton Ven. It was not particularly well received. His breakthrough c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfried Bomans
Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans (2 March 1913 – 22 December 1971) was a Dutch author and television personality. Much of his work remains untranslated into English. Life and career Godfried Bomans was born in The Hague and grew up in and around Haarlem, where his father had a law office. Already as a pupil in high school Bomans showed literary interest; he became editor of school newspapers and published short stories, even in literary and student magazines. He originally studied law at the University of Amsterdam (1933–1938; LL.B.) and then until 1942 psychology and philosophy at the University of Nijmegen, but spent his entire life writing.Autor: W.A. Ornée: Bomans, Godfried Jan Arnold (1913-1971). Biografie In: ''Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland''. Letz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Bloem
Marion Bloem (born 24 August 1952 in Arnhem, the Netherlands) is a Dutch writer and film maker of Indo (mixed Dutch and Indonesian) descent, best known as author of the literary acclaimed book ''Geen gewoon Indisch meisje'' (''No Ordinary Indo Girl'') and director of the 2008 feature film ''Ver van familie'' (''Far from Family''). Bloem is a second generation Indo immigrant born into a family of four children. Her parents, Alexander and Jacqueline Bloem, repatriated from Indonesia in 1950. Her father is a survivor of the Junyo Maru disaster. Bloem, herself a psychologist, is married to Dutch author and physician Ivan Wolffers. She has one son named Kaja and four grandchildren. In addition to her career as an author and film director, Bloem is a painter who exhibits around Europe. Books Bloem's first short story was published in 1968, when she was only 16 years old. Bloem made her ''bona fide'' debut as a writer in 1976, with the book ''De overgang'' (''The Transition''). She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carli Biessels
Carli Biessels (1936 – 16 September 2016) was a Dutch writer of children's literature. Biography Biessels was born and died in Nijmegen, where she studied pedagogy. Biessels worked in the field of children psychiatry and orthopedagogy. Before writing books for children Biessels wrote various stories for children's magazines ''Okki'' and ''Taptoe''. Biessels made her debut as author at 62 years of age with her book ''Twee druppels water'' (1998). The book was on the Longlist for the Gouden Uil award in 1999. In 2010, she won the Woutertje Pieterse Prijs for her book ''Juwelen van stras''. She also received the Vlag en Wimpel award in 2001 for her book ''De feestrede'' and in 2007 for her book ''Irah en de dieren''. Her last book ''Ik moet je iets belangrijks vertellen'' (2016) was published posthumously. Her books have been illustrated by various illustrators, including Martijn van der Linden, Harmen van Straaten and Marije Tolman. Other illustrators include Patsy Backx, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maarten Biesheuvel
Maarten Biesheuvel (23 May 1939 in Schiedam – 30 July 2020 in Leiden) was a Dutch writer of short stories and novellas. He made his literary debut in 1972 with the short story collection ''In de bovenkooi''. He received the "Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs" in 1984 for ''Reis door mijn kamer''. In 2007 he received the P. C. Hooft Award. The Dutch was named after him and is awarded to the author of the best collection of short stories that has appeared in the Dutch language during the previous year. From 1990 Biesheuvel's literary production slowed significantly due to a writer's block and manic-depressive phases. He died in July 2020. Selected works *''In de bovenkooi'' (1972) *''Reis door mijn kamer'' (1984) *''Godencirkel'' (1986) Awards *1985: The Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for ''Reis door mijn kamer'' *2007: The P. C. Hooft Award *2008: Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion The Order of the Netherlands Lion, also known as the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
