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  Jane Gloriana Villanueva

  Jane Villanueva is a fictional character, portrayed by Gina Rodriguez, on the TV series Jane the Virgin. The novel Snow Falling (ghostwritten by Caridad Piñeiro) is released to coincide with the TV episode in which Jane becomes a published author.

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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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  Jan Terlouw

  Jan Cornelis Terlouw was a Dutch politician, physicist and author. A member of the Democrats 66 (D66) party, he served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1981 to 1982 under Prime Minister Dries van Agt.

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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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  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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  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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  Geert Mak

  Dutch historian mostly known for his documentary series 'In Europa' (In Europe) and book of the same name. Nowadays he gives lectures about the Netherlands in the USA.
  
  

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  Tim Krabbé

  Tim Krabbé is de auteur van bestsellers als Het Gouden Ei, De Renner, De Grot en Marte Jacobs, die ook internationaal succesvol zijn. Verschillende van zijn boeken werden verfilmd.

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  Gerard Reve

  Gerard Reve was een Nederlands schrijver en dichter. Samen met Harry Mulisch en W.F. Hermans wordt hij gerekend tot De Grote Drie: de drie belangrijkste Nederlandse schrijvers van na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Tot zijn bekendste werken behoren De avonden (roman uit 1947) en Werther Nieland (novelle uit 1949). Tot 1973 schreef Reve onder zijn oorspronkelijke naam Gerard Kornelis van het Reve, maar vereenvoudigde deze later tot Gerard Reve. Hij debuteerde in 1946 in het tijdschrift Criterium met de novelle De ondergang van de familie Boslowits, een jaar later verscheen de klassieker De avonden. Reve zou uiteindelijk een enorm oeuvre voortbrengen, waaronder een groot aantal ‘brievenboeken’. In 1969 ontving Reve de P.C. Hooftprijs en in 2001 werd

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  J. Bernlef

  Bernlef (previously J. Bernlef) is the pseudonym of Dutch writer, poet, and translator Hendrik Jan Marsman. He occasionally used the nom de plume: Henk Bernlef.
  
  Between 1959 and 2012 Bernlef wrote a large number of novels, stories and poems. Amongst others he received the Constantijn Huygens prijs (1984), the AKO Literatuurprijs (1987) and the PC Hooftprijs (1994). His work is characterized by a sober language and an unflagging fascination with the workings of the human memory. His most famous novel is Hersenschimmen (1984) and describes the process of dementia from the point of view of the sufferer, Maarten Klein. (Source: de Volkskrant 29/10/2012)

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  Jeroen Brouwers

  Jeroen Brouwers was a Dutch journalist and writer.
  
  From 1964 to 1976 Brouwers worked as an editor at Manteau publishers in Brussels. In 1964 he made his literary debut with Het mes op de keel (The Knife to the Throat).
  
  He won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 1989 for De zondvloed, and in 1995 the Prix Femina for International works for his book Bezonken rood (Sunken Red). In 2007 he refused the Dutch Literature Prize (Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren) - the highest literary accolade in the Dutch-speaking world - because he considered the prize money of €16,000 too low for all his work.
  

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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
  
  Willem Elsschot bij "Schrijversgewijs"
  
  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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  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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  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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  C.S. Lewis

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
  
  Clive Staples Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954. He was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the

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  Annet Schaap

  Annet Schaap wilde altijd al tekenaar worden, of schrijver, of ontdekkingsreizigster.
  
  Ze studeerde aan twee kunstacademies en een schrijversschool.
  
  Sinds 1991 illustreerde ze bijna 200 kinderboeken en is in Nederland het meest bekend door haar tekeningen bij de succesvolle Hoe Overleef Ik-serie van Francine Oomen. Maar ze illustreerde ook veel boeken van andere geliefde schrijvers, zoals Janneke Schotveld, Manon Sikkel, Jacques Vriens, Annie M.G. Schmidt en Astrid Lindgren.
  
  Met haar Canadese man Tom en hun zoontje Jonas (2009) trok ze een paar jaar lang in een camper door Noord en Midden Amerika. Lees hier meer over hun avonturen: http://www.annetschaap.com/category/r...
  
  Nu woont ze weer gewoon in Utrecht en tekent en schrijft om en om.

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  Gerwin van der Werf

  Gerwin van der Werf (De Meern, 13 juni 1969) is schrijver, columnist/publicist bij Dagblad Trouw en muziekdocent. Hij publiceerde vier romans bij uitgeverij Atlas Contact: Gewapende Man (2010), Wild (2011, longlist Libris Literatuurprijs), Luchtvissers (2013) en Een Onbarmhartig Pad (2018). Ook verschenen er van hem twee bundels met columns en verhalen over het onderwijs: Schooldagen (2014) en Stampen en Zingen (2018)
  
  Van der Werf won de eerste editie van de Turing Nationale Gedichtenwedstrijd in 2010 voor het gedicht Misbruik.

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  Teun van de Keuken

  Teun Gerrit (Teun) van de Keuken is a Dutch journalist and television and radio program maker.
  
  In 2015 Van de Keuken wrote the book Puur en Eerlijk (Pure and Fair) about misleading consumers. Goed Volk, a novel based on Van de Keuken's youth, followed in 2017. De
  
  Supermarktsurvivalgids (The Supermarketsurvival guide) was published in the autumn of 2018. In it, Van de Keuken dissects the world of the supermarket and gives tips for conscious shopping.

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  Tip Marugg

  Silvio Alberto (Tip) Marugg was a Dutch-Antillian writer and poet of Venezuelan/Swiss heritage. Marugg has written 3 novels in Dutch; Weekendpelgrimage (1957), In de straten van Tepalka (1967); and De morgen loeit weer aan (1988), which was nominated for a major Dutch literature prize. His style is best characterized as a variation on magic realism. Tip Marugg has also written several poems (in literary magazines as well as his book of poems Afschuw van Licht) and a Dikshonario Erotiko; a dictionary of all words with an erotic meaning used in Papiamentu.
  
  

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  Tessa de Loo

  Tessa de Loo is de pen name of Johanna Martina (Tineke) Duyvené de Wit.

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  Simon Carmiggelt

  Simon Carmiggelt (1913-1987) groeide op in zijn geboortestad Den Haag. Hij begon als journalist, aanvankelijk bij Het Vaderland, in 1932 bij Vooruit, de Haagse editie van het socialistische dagblad Het Volk, als toneel- en filmrecensent. Daar begon hij Haagse ‘cursiefjes’ te schrijven, onder de titel ‘Kleinigheden’.
  
  Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog raakte Carmiggelt via vrienden in Amsterdam betrokken bij het illegale blad Het Parool, waar hij instond voor de productie en de verspreiding. In het laatste oorlogsjaar was hij ook redacteur.
  
  Na de bevrijding kreeg Carmiggelt bij Het Parool de leiding over de kunstrubriek. Vanaf oktober 1946 publiceerde hij weer zijn korte verhalen, aanvankelijk drie keer per week, later elke dag, die hij onderteken

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