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  Louis Couperus

  Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (June 10, 1863 – July 16, 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet of the late 19th and early 20th century. He is usually considered one of the foremost figures in Dutch literature.

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  Harry Mulisch

  Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch along with W.F. Hermans and Gerard Reve, is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch postwar literature. He has written novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections.
  Mulisch was born in Haarlem and lived in Amsterdam since 1958, following the death of his father in 1957. Mulisch's father was from Austria-Hungary and emigrated to the Netherlands after the First World War. During the German occupation in World War II he worked for a German bank, which also dealt with confiscated Jewish assets. His mother, Alice Schwarz, was Jewish. Mulisch and his mother escaped transportation to a concentration camp thanks to Mulisch's father's collaboration with the Nazis. Due to the curious nature of his parents'

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  Simon Vestdijk

  Born in the small town of Harlingen, Vestdijk studied medicine in Amsterdam, but turned to literature after a few years as a doctor. He became one of the most important 20th-century writers in the Netherlands. His prolificity as a novelist was legendary, but he was at least as important as an essayist on e.g., literature, art, music and religion. He also wrote poetry and short stories. His work has been translated into most Western European languages.
  
  

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  Ann Petry

  Ann Petry (October 12, 1908 – April 28, 1997) was an American author who became the first black woman writer with book sales topping a million copies for her novel The Street.
  
  The wish to become a professional writer was raised in Ann for the first time in high school when her English teacher read her essay to the class commenting on it with the words: “I honestly believe that you could be a writer if you wanted to.” The decision to become a pharmacist was her family’s. She turned up in college and graduated with a Ph.G. degree from Connecticut College of Pharmacy in New Haven in 1931 and worked in the family business for several years. She also began to write short stories while she was working at the pharmacy.
  
  On February 22, 1938, she marr

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  Maarten 't Hart

  Maarten ’t Hart made his debut under the name Martin Hart with the novel Stenen voor een ransuil (Stones for a Long-Eared Owl, 1971). He studied biology in Leiden and worked as an ethologist at Leiden University. One of the most important themes in his oeuvre is his childhood in a Calvinist community and his distancing himself from it. His passions for nature and music also constantly crop up in his work. ’t Hart broke through to a wide audience with his melancholy novel about meeting his teenage love: Een vlucht regenwulpen (A Flight of Curlews, 1978). Many novels, short-story and essay collections later, ’t Hart, with his authentic tone and work which often touches upon the tension between biography and fiction, has grown to be one of the

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  Louis Couperus

  Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (June 10, 1863 – July 16, 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet of the late 19th and early 20th century. He is usually considered one of the foremost figures in Dutch literature.

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  Willem Frederik Hermans

  Willem Frederik Hermans is one of the greatest post-war Dutch authors. Before devoting his entire life to writing, Hermans had been teaching Physical Geography at the University of Groningen for many years. He had already started writing and publishing in magazines at a young age. His polemic and provocative style led to a court case as early as 1952. His caustic pieces were compiled in Mandarijnen op zwavelzuur (Mandarines in Sulphuric Acid, 1963), which was reprinted with additions a number of times. It is Hermans’s belief that in order to survive people have to create their own reality. It is inevitable that all these experiences of reality will collide. Language is essential to create order out of chaos and plays an important role in th

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  Jan Wolkers

  Jan Hendrik Wolkers was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter.
  
  Wolkers is considered one of the "Great Four" writers of post-World War II Dutch literature, along with Willem Frederik Hermans, Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve (the latter authors are also known as the "Great Three"). He became noted in the 1960s mainly for his strikingly direct descriptions of sex.
  
  His 1969 novel Turks Fruit was translated into ten different languages and published in English as Turkish Delight. It was also made into a highly successful movie, the Paul Verhoeven-directed Turks Fruit (1972) which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and in 1999 won the award for Best Dutch Film of the Century.
  
  From 1980 until his death, Wolkers resided on

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  Andreas Burnier

  Andreas Burnier, pseudoniem van Catharina Irma Dessaur, (Den Haag, 3 juli 1931 – Amsterdam, 18 september 2002) was een Nederlandse schrijfster. Onder haar eigen naam was ze van 1973 tot 1988 hoogleraar criminologie aan de Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen.

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  Willem Elsschot

  Willem Elsschot is het pseudoniem van Alfonsus Josephus de Ridder, een Vlaamse dichter en schrijver.
  
  Willem Elsschot in de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia
  
  Willem Elsschot in de Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren
  
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  Willem Elsschot is the pseudonym of Alfonsus Josephus de Ridder, a Flemish poet and writer.
  
  Willem Elsschot in the English Wikipedia

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  Marga Minco

  Marga Minco (pseudoniem van Sara Minco) debuteerde in 1957 met Het bittere kruid, bekroond met de Vijverbergprijs (nu F. Bordewijkprijs). Ook haar latere werk, De andere kant (1959), Een leeg huis (1966), De val (1983), De glazen brug (1986), Nagelaten dagen (1997) en de bundel verzamelde verhalen Achter de muur (2010), had veelal de Tweede Wereldoorlog en de nasleep daarvan als onderwerp. Voor haar oeuvre ontving Minco de Annie Romeinprijs (1999), de Constantijn Huygensprijs (2005) en de P. C. Hooftprijs (2019). Haar boeken zijn in vele talen vertaald.

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  Connie Palmen

  Connie Palmen (Aldegonda Petronella Huberta Maria Palmen) is a Dutch author. She was born on November 25, 1955 in Sint Odiliënberg.
  
  Palmen debuted with the novel De wetten (1990), published in the USA as The Laws (1993), translated by Richard Huijing. The Laws was shortlisted for the 1996 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
  Her second novel was De vriendschap (1995), published in the USA as The Friendship (2000), translated by Ina Rilke.
  
  Palmen had a relationship with Ischa Meijer in the years preceding his death in 1995. From 1999 on she lived with D66 politician Hans van Mierlo, and the couple married on 11 November 2009 until his death on 11 March 2010.

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  Manon Uphoff

  Manon Uphoff was born in 1962 into a family of 13 children. She left home at 16, went on to study literary theory and is now an acclaimed artist and writer, whose novels have been shortlisted for numerous prizes. Vallen is als vliegen (Falling is Like Flying) has been a literary phenomenon in the Netherlands, making 32 ‘Best of 2019’ lists, being shortlisted for 4 awards and winning the prestigious Charlotte Köhler Prize.

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  Frederik van Eeden

  Frederik Willem van Eeden was een Nederlands psychiater, schrijver en wereldverbeteraar, die zich diepgaand heeft beziggehouden met taal- en begripskritiek.

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  Virginie Loveling

  Virginie Loveling was een Vlaamse dichter en schrijfster. Zij was de jongere zuster van Rosalie Loveling en de tante van Cyriel Buysse.
  
  Virginie Loveling in de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia
  
  Virginie Loveling in de Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren
  
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  Virginie Loveling was a Flemish poet and writer. She was the younger sister of Rosalie Loveling and the aunt of Cyriel Buysse. In 1870, the two sisters published poems together which brought them instant recognition.
  
  Virginie wrote poems, novellas, novels and journalistic prose.
  
  Virginie Loveling in the English Wikipedia

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  Rob van Essen

  Rob van Essen (1963). Schrijver, vertaler, recensent Angelsaksische literatuur voor NRC Handelsblad.

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  Sacha Bronwasser

  Sacha Bronwasser is a Dutch art historian, journalist and novelist.

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  Maria Dermoût

  Helena Anthonia Maria Elisabeth Dermoût-Ingerman was born in Pekalongan, Java, Indonesia, on 15 June 1888 and died in the Hague, the Netherlands, on 27 June 1962. She was a Dutch-Indonesian author.

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  Christien Brinkgreve

  Christine Dorothea Antoinette (Christien) Brinkgreve is sociologe en schrijfster. Zij is gehuwd met Arend Jan Heerma van Voss en moeder van twee schrijvende zonen Daan en Thomas.
  
  Christine Dorothea Antoinette (Christien) Brinkgreve is a sociologist and writer. She is married to Arend Jan Heerma van Voss and mother to two writing sons: Daan and Thomas.

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  W.G. Sebald

  Winfried Georg Maximilian Sebald was a German writer and academic. His works are largely concerned with the themes of memory, loss of memory, and identity (both personal and collective) and decay (of civilizations, traditions or physical objects). They are, in particular, attempts to reconcile himself with, and deal in literary terms with, the trauma of the Second World War and its effect on the German people.
  
  At the time of his death at the age of only 57, he was being cited by many literary critics as one of the greatest living authors, and was tipped as a possible future recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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  Lale Gül

  Lale is een Turks-Nederlandse schrijfster die in een streng-islamitisch gezin in Amsterdam-West opgroeide en later afstand van nam.

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  Falun Ellie Koos

  Falun Ellie Koos (1992) is schrijver en filmmaker. Hun debuutroman Rouwdouwers (2024) haalde de shortlist van de Libris Literatuur Prijs. Koos won in 2022 de Joost Zwagerman essayprijs en ontving in 2023 een C.C.S. Cronestipendium voor beloftevolle auteurs van de gemeente Utrecht. Hun kortfilm De vloer is lava (2020) werd genomineerd voor Rialto for Short.

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  Safae el Khannoussi

  Safae el Khannoussi (1994) is schrijver en promovendus aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Oroppa werd bekroond met de Boon en de Libris Literatuur Prijs.

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  Marcellus Emants

  Marcellus Emants was a Dutch novelist who was one of the few examples of Dutch Naturalism. He is seen as a first step towards the renewing force of the Tachtigers towards modern Dutch literature, a movement which started around the 1880s. His most well-known work is 'A Posthumous Confession', published in 1894

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