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Tollensprijs
The Tollens-Fonds ("Tollens foundation)" is a Dutch organization named for poet Hendrik Tollens (1780–1856). The organization awards a notable literary prize, the Tollens Prize and till 2008 also the Jacobson Prize. Tollens Prize The Tollens Prize ( nl, Tollensprijs) is a quinquennial award in the Netherlands designed to provide a five prominent literary honor. The prize is awarded for a body of work that, in the opinion of the jury, had the highest literary value in the preceding five years. The award, established by the Board of Tollensfonds in 1902, is called the Tollensprijs since 1925. It was named after the poet Hendrik Tollens (1780–1856). Winners *2015 - Hans Dorrestijn *2010 - Paulien Cornelisse *2005 - Jules Deelder *2000 - Heinz Hermann Polzer (Drs. P) *1992 - Marten Toonder *1988 - Koos Schuur *1983 - Belcampo *1978 - Michel van der Plas *1973 - Anton Koolhaas *1968 - F.C. Terborgh *1963 - Ina Boudier-Bakker *1958 - Maria Dermoût *1953 - Bertus Aafjes *1948 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Couperus
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (10 June 1863 – 16 July 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons and sketches. Couperus is considered to be one of the foremost figures in Dutch literature. In 1923, he was awarded the ''Tollensprijs'' (Tollens Prize). Couperus and his wife travelled extensively in Europe and Asia, and he later wrote several related travelogues which were published weekly. Youth Louis Marie-Anne Couperus was born on 10 June 1863 at Mauritskade 11 in The Hague, Netherlands, into a long-established, ''Indo'' family of the colonial landed gentry of the Dutch East Indies. He was the eleventh and youngest child of John Ricus Couperus (1816–1902), a prominent colonial administrator, lawyer and ''landheer'' or lord of the private domain ('' particuliere land'') of Tjikopo in Java, and Catharina Geertruida Reynst (1829–1893). T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Van Schendel
Arthur van Schendel (15 March 1874 in Batavia, Dutch East Indies – 11 September 1946 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch writer of novels and short stories. One of his best known works is ''Het fregatschip Johanna Maria''. His son Arthur F.E. van Schendel (1910–1979) was General Director of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam from 1959–1975. Prizes *1931 – C.W. van der Hoogtprijs for ''Het fregatschip Johanna Maria'' *1933 – Tollensprijs The Tollens-Fonds ("Tollens foundation)" is a Dutch organization named for poet Hendrik Tollens (1780–1856). The organization awards a notable literary prize, the Tollens Prize and till 2008 also the Jacobson Prize. Tollens Prize The Tollens Pri ... for his entire oeuvre *1947 – P.C. Hooftprijs for ''Het oude huis'' Bibliography * 1896 – ''Drogon'' * 1904 – ''Een zwerver verliefd'' (A Wanderer in Love) * 1907 – ''Een zwerver verdwaald'' (A Lost Wanderer) * 1908 – ''De schoone jacht'' (The beautiful hunt) * 1910 – ''Shakespeare'' * 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ina Boudier-Bakker
Klaziena (Ina) Boudier-Bakker (Amsterdam, 15 April 1875 – Utrecht, 26 December 1966) was a Dutch writer of novels. Her most famous work is ''De klop op de deur'' (''The knock on the door''), written in 1930. Biography At age 27, Ina Bakker married Henry Boudier, director of the PTT. Because of his work they moved regularly – they lived for example in Utrecht, Vianen, Aerdenhout and Groningen. In 1929 they returned to Utrecht. In 1902 she wrote her debut, the novella ''Machten'' (''Powers''), but she really captured her place among the great Dutch authors with her novel ''Armoede'' (''Poverty''), which she wrote in Utrecht between 1907 and 1909. Also in Utrecht, she wrote her best known book, ''De klop op de deur'' (''The knock on the door''), in 1930. This was adapted for television in 1970. During World War II she made a poem about every act of terrorism; shortly after the war, she recited these poems. After the war Boudier-Bakker's life was influenced by the illness of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marten Toonder
Marten Toonder (2 May 1912 – 27 July 2005) was a Dutch comic strip creator, born in Rotterdam. He was probably the most successful comic artist in the Netherlands and had a great influence on the Dutch language by introducing new words and expressions. He is most famous for his series ''Tom Puss'' and ''Panda''. Tom Puss/Oliver B. Bumble series In 1931 after his final exams, Marten Toonder went to Buenos Aires with his father. Here he got acquainted with the work of the well-known Argentine artist and editor Dante Quinterno, who ran a studio producing comics. Quinterno's creations impressed him to such a degree that he decided to become an artist himself. His most famous comic series were the Tom Puss (''Tom Poes'' in Dutch) and Oliver B. Bumble (''Olivier B. Bommel'' in Dutch) series that appeared in a Dutch newspaper from 1941–86. It has a very characteristic format. Every day there were three drawings and an accompanying text (about a book-page long). It started out as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nederlands Letterkundig Museum
Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People Ethnic groups * Germanic peoples, the original meaning of the term ''Dutch'' in English ** Pennsylvania Dutch, a group of early Germanic immigrants to Pennsylvania *Dutch people, the Germanic group native to the Netherlands Specific people * Dutch (nickname), a list of people * Johnny Dutch (born 1989), American hurdler * Dutch Schultz (1902–1935), American mobster born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer * Dutch Mantel, ring name of American retired professional wrestler Wayne Maurice Keown (born 1949) * Dutch Savage, ring name of professional wrestler and promoter Frank Stewart (1935–2013) Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Dutch (''Black Lagoon''), an African-American character from the Japanese manga and anime ''Black L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacobus Van Looy
Jacobus (Jac) van Looy (12 September 1855 – 24 February 1930) was a Dutch painter and writer. Biography Van Looy was the son of a carpenter, but his father lost his job when his eyesight began to fail. His mother died when he was five years old and when his father died soon afterwards, he ended up in the Haarlem municipal orphanage. He trained to become a house painter, but was able to follow drawing classes, from 1877 at the "Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten" in Amsterdam. In 1884, he received the Prix de Rome, which allowed him to travel.Jac. van Looy in the The years 1885-86 he spent traveling through , |
Lodewijk Van Deyssel
Lodewijk van Deyssel was the pseudonym of Karel Joan Lodewijk Alberdingk Thijm (22 September 1864, Amsterdam – 26 January 1952), a Dutch novelist, prose-poet and literary critic and a leading member of the Tachtigers The Tachtigers ("Eightiers"), otherwise known as the Movement of Eighty ( nl, Beweging van Tachtig), were a radical and influential group of Dutch writers who developed a new approach in 19th-century Dutch literature. They interacted and worked t .... He was a son of Joseph Alberdingk Thijm. External links * * 1864 births 1952 deaths Dutch writers Writers from Amsterdam {{Netherlands-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carel Scharten
Carel Theodorus Scharten (March 14, 1878 – October 31, 1950) was a Dutch novelist and poet. He was born in Middelburg and died in Florence, Italy. In 1928 he and his wife Margo Scharten-Antink Margo Sybranda Everdina Scharten-Antink (September 7, 1868 – November 27, 1957) was a Dutch poet. She was born in Zutphen and died in Florence, Italy. In 1928 she and her husband Carel Scharten won a bronze medal in the art competitions o ... won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for their "De nar uit Maremmen" ("The Fool from the Maremma"). References External links profile * * 1878 births 1950 deaths Dutch male poets Olympic bronze medalists in art competitions People from Middelburg, Zeeland Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic competitors in art competitions {{netherlands-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo Scharten-Antink
Margo Sybranda Everdina Scharten-Antink (September 7, 1868 – November 27, 1957) was a Dutch poet. She was born in Zutphen and died in Florence, Italy. In 1928 she and her husband Carel Scharten won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for their "De nar uit Maremmen" ("The Fool in Maremma The Maremma (, ; from Latin , "maritime and) is a coastal area of western central Italy, bordering the Tyrrhenian Sea. It includes much of south-western Tuscany and part of northern Lazio. It was formerly mostly marshland, often malarial, bu ..."). References External links profile * 1869 births 1957 deaths Dutch women poets Olympic bronze medalists in art competitions People from Zutphen Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic competitors in art competitions {{netherlands-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Augustin
Elisabeth Augustin (13 June 1903 – 14 December 2001) was a German-Dutch writer. The daughter of Eduard Joseph Glaser, a Roman Catholic, and Ella Cohn, a Jew, she was born Elisabeth Theresia Glaser in Friedenau, a suburb of Berlin, and grew up in Leipzig and Berlin. By the age of 20, she was writing poetry and short stories that were published in local newspapers. In 1933, she completed her first novel ''Der Ausgestoßene'' (The outcast); it was accepted for publication but was not released due to the political environment in Germany at the time. Later that year, she left for the Netherlands. Her husband, Paul Felix Augustin, had grown up there and she already spoke Dutch. Her own Dutch translation of her first novel was published as ''De uitgestootene'' in 1935. She had published three more novels in Dutch by 1938. In 1938, her parents left Germany to join her in the Netherlands. However, after her father died in 1942, her mother was deported to the Sobibór extermination cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carel Peeters
Carel Peeters (born 5 June 1944, in Nijmegen) is one of the leading Dutch literary critics and since 1973 a writer and editor at ''Vrij Nederland''. Peeters grew up in Nijmegen but moved, with his parents, to Amsterdam at age 14. In 1964 he enrolled at the University of Amsterdam to study literature, and began writing for the newspaper ''Het Parool''; he never attained his degree. In 1970 he was hired by ''Elsevier'', where he worked as the assistant of Wim Zaal, and in 1973 moved to ''Vrij Nederland'' (where he still works) and started their literary supplement, which in 1982 earned him an award from the Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek, the Dutch trade organization for booksellers and publishers. From 1987 to 1992 he was a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam. Peeters published more than a dozen collections of essays, and was awarded the Dr. Wijnaendts Francken award for essays and literary criticism in 1985, and in 2008 the Jacobson Award, awarded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan De Hartog
Jan de Hartog (April 22, 1914 – September 22, 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker. Biography Early years Jan de Hartog was born to a Dutch Calvinist Minister and professor of theology, Arnold Hendrik, and his wife, Lucretia de Hartog (who herself was a lecturer in medieval mysticism), in 1914. He was raised in the city of Haarlem, the Netherlands. At around the age of 11, he ran away to become a cabin boy, otherwise referred to as a "sea mouse" on board a Dutch fishing boat. His father had him brought home, but shortly afterwards, Jan ran off to sea again. The experiences thus gained became material for some of his future novels, as many of his life experiences did. At 16, he briefly attended the Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart in Amsterdam, a training college for the Dutch merchant marine but was only there for a year. Per his own account, he was expelled, and told emph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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