Virginie Loveling
Virginie Loveling was een Vlaamse dichter en schrijfster. Zij was de jongere zuster van Rosalie Loveling en de tante van Cyriel Buysse.
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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.
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Willem Elsschot
Willem Elsschot is het pseudoniem van Alfonsus Josephus de Ridder, een Vlaamse dichter en schrijver.
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Raymond Brulez
Raymond Brulez was een Vlaams schrijver.
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Jane Urquhart
She is the author of seven internationally acclaimed novels entitled, The Whirlpool, Changing Heaven, Away, The Underpainter, The Stone Carvers, A Map of Glass, and Sanctuary Line.
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The Whirlpool received the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Award). Away was winner of the Trillium Book Award and a finalist for the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Underpainter won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction and was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
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P.C. Hooft
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Multatuli
Eduard Douwes Dekker, better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860) in which he denounced the abuses of colonialism in the colony of the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia). He is considered one of the Netherlands' greatest authors.
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Determined to expose the scandals he had witnessed during his years in the Dutch East Indies, Douwes Dekker began to write newspaper articles and pamphlets. Little notice was taken of these early publications until, in 1860, he published his satirical anticolonialist novel Max Havelaar: The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company under the pseudonym Multatuli. Douwes Dekker's pen name is derived -
Louis Paul Boon
Lodewijk Paul Albrecht (Louis Paul) Boon was een Vlaams schrijver, dichter en kunstschilder.
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Lodewijk Paul Albrecht (Louis Paul) Boon was a Flemish writer, poet and painter.
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Nescio
Jan Hendrik Frederik Grönloh was born in Amsterdam, the oldest of four children. After an idealistic youth, he joined the Holland–Bombay Trading Company in 1904, becoming director in 1926, suffering a nervous breakdown leading to a short hospitalization in 1927, and retiring at age fifty-five, on December 31, 1937; he married Aagje Tiket (b. 1883) in 1906 and had four daughters with her, born in 1907, 1908, 1909, and 1912. Meanwhile, as Nescio (Latin for “I don’t know”; he adopted a pseudonym so as not to jeopardize his business career, acknowledging his authorship publicly only in 1929), he wrote what is now considered perhaps the best prose in the Dutch language.
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Felix Timmermans
Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans was een Vlaamse schrijver en dichter. Hij was de vader van Lia Timmermans.
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Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans was a Flemish writer and poet. He was the father of Lia Timmermans
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Betje Wolff
Elizabeth Bekker Wolff, beter bekend als Betje Wolff. Er is een 'Museum Betje Wolff' in Middenbeemster, gevestigd in de pastorie waar Betje na haar huwelijk met dominee Adrianus Wolff heeft gewoond en waar zij een aantal van haar boeken heeft geschreven (adres: Middenweg 178, Middenbeemster). Het huis in De Rijp (Rechtestraat 40), waar Betje Wolff samen met Aagje Deken heeft gewoond na de dood van dominee Wolff, is niet opengesteld voor publiek. Het huis heeft een gedenksteen in de gevel. Elizabeth Bekker Wolff was also known as Betje Wolff.
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Egon Hostovský
Egon Hostowsky (sometimes spelled "Hostovsky") was a major figure in Czech literature from the 1930s to the '60s. The youngest of eight children, he was born into a Jewish family in 1908 in the Bohemian village of Hronov. (His father was part owner of a small textile plant.) Hostowsky studied in Prague and later in Vienna, and became an editor at the Prague-based publishing company Melantrich in the early '30s. He also wrote his own books, including the novels Lost Shadow (1931) and The Arsonist (1935), for which he later received the Czechoslovak State Prize for Literature. He left Czechoslovakia in 1939, ostensibly to deliver a lecture in Brussels. Instead, he went to Paris and then New York, seeking a home far from the occupying Germans.
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Carry van Bruggen
Carry van Bruggen is the penname of Carolina Lea de Haan. She also wrote under the penname Justine Abbing.
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Marnix Gijsen
Marnix Gijsen was de schrijversnaam van Joannes Alphonsius Albertus Goris, een Vlaams schrijver. Zijn pseudoniem komt van Marnix van Sint Aldegonde en de naam van zijn moeder, Gijsen.
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In 1926 ontving hij de August Beernaertprijs voor Het huis.
Marnix Gijsen was the pen name of Joannes Alphonsius Albertus Goris, a Flemish writer. His pseudonym relates to Marnix van Sint Aldegonde and the surname of his mother (Gijsen).
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Stijn Streuvels
Stijn Streuvels, pseudoniem voor Franciscus (Frank) Petrus Maria Lateur was een Vlaamse schrijver. Streuvels werk gaat meestal over het landelijke leven van de arme boeren in Vlaanderen.
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Stijn Streuvels, pseudonym for Franciscus (Frank) Petrus Maria Lateur was a Flemish writer. Streuvels work usually deals with the rural life of poor farmers in Flanders.
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Patrick McGuinness
Born in Tunisia in 1968 to a Belgian French-speaking mother and an English father of Irish descent, he grew up in Belgium and also lived for periods in Venezuela, Iran, Romania and the UK. He currently lives in Oxford and in Wales teaching French and Comparative Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford.
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Arnon Grunberg
Arnon Yasha Yves (Arnon) Grunberg is a Dutch writer. Some of his books were written using the heteronym Marek van der Jagt.
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In 1989 Grunberg made his acting debut in Maria's Cunt (de Kut van Maria); a short film by Dutch enfant terrible filmmaker Cyrus Frisch.
Grunberg made his literary debut in 1994 with the novel Blauwe maandagen (Blue Mondays), which won the Dutch prize for the best debut novel that year. In 2000, under the heteronym Marek van der Jagt, he won the best debut prize again for his novel De geschiedenis van mijn kaalheid (The History of My Baldness).
Grunberg publishes novels about once a year but also writes columns and essays in a wide variety of Dutch and international newspapers and magazines. He does not restrict himself o -
Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo is the Anglo-Nigerian award-winning author of several books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora: past, present, real, imagined. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker Prize in 2019. Her writing also spans short fiction, reviews, essays, drama and writing for BBC radio. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University, London, and Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She was made an MBE in 2009. As a literary activist for inclusion Bernardine has founded a number of successful initiatives, including Spread the Word writer development agency (1995-ongoing); the Complete Works mentoring scheme for poets of colour (2007-2017) and the Brunel International African P
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Jane Urquhart
She is the author of seven internationally acclaimed novels entitled, The Whirlpool, Changing Heaven, Away, The Underpainter, The Stone Carvers, A Map of Glass, and Sanctuary Line.
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The Whirlpool received the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Award). Away was winner of the Trillium Book Award and a finalist for the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Underpainter won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction and was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
The Stone Carvers was a finalist for the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. A Map of Glass was a finalist for a regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Bo -
Hella S. Haasse
Hella S. Haasse (1918 - 2011) was born in Batavia, modern-day Jakarta. She moved to the Netherlands after secondary school. In 1945 she debuted with a collection of poems, entitled Stroomversnelling (Momentum). She made her name three years later with the novella given out to mark the Dutch Book Week, Oeroeg (The Black Lake, 1948). As with much of her work, this tale of the friendship between a Dutch and an Indonesian boy has gained the status of a classic in the Netherlands. Titles such as Het woud der verwachting (In a Dark Wood Wandering, 1949), Een nieuwer testament (Threshold of Fire, 1966) and Mevrouw Bentinck of Onverenigbaarheid van karakter (Mrs Bentinck or Irreconcilable in Character, 1978) have been greatly enjoyed by several gen
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Victor Klemperer
Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) worked as a commercial apprentice, a journalist and eventually a Professor of Literature, specialising in the French Enlightenment at the Technische Universität Dresden. His diaries detailing his life under successive German states -the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic- were published in 1995. His recollections on the Third Reich have since become standard sources; extensively quoted by Saul Friedlander, Michael Burleigh and Richard J. Evans.
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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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Felix Timmermans
Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans was een Vlaamse schrijver en dichter. Hij was de vader van Lia Timmermans.
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F. Bordewijk
Ferdinand Bordewijk was born in Amsterdam and studied law in Leiden. After graduation he worked at a Rotterdam law firm.
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His first published work was a volume of poetry titled Paddestoelen ("Mushrooms") under the pen-name Ton Ven. It was not particularly well received.
His breakthrough came with the short novels Blokken ("Blocks", 1931), Knorrende Beesten ("Growling Animals", 1933) and Bint (1934), and two longer works Rood paleis ("Red Palace", 1936) and Karakter ("Character", 1938).
His style, which is terse and symbolic, is considered magic realism. He was awarded the P.C. Hooftprijs in 1953 and the Constantijn Huygens award in 1957. -
Tom Lanoye
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Tom Lanoye (his name is pronounced the French way: /lanwa/) was born August 27, 1958 in the Belgian city Sint Niklaas. He is a novelist, poet, columnist, screenwriter and playwright. His literary work has been published and/or performed in over fifteen languages. Lanoye lives and works in Antwerp (Belgium) and Cape Town (South Africa).
Lanoye is not only a writer, but also an entrepreneur. As the youngest son of a butcher, he self-published his first work. In his own words, 'Just like all the punk bands did in those days: out of dissatisfaction with the existing structures, and to learn the trade from -
Willem Elsschot
Willem Elsschot is het pseudoniem van Alfonsus Josephus de Ridder, een Vlaamse dichter en schrijver.
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Tommy Wieringa
Tommy Wieringa (born 20 May 1967 in Goor, Overijssel) is a Dutch writer. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2006 for his novel Joe Speedboat.
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Sylvain Tesson
Sylvain Tesson est le fils de Marie-Claude et Philippe Tesson et le frère de la comédienne Stéphanie Tesson et de la journaliste d'art Daphné Tesson.
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Géographe de formation, il effectue en 1993 un tour du monde à bicyclette avec Alexandre Poussin avec qui il traverse l'Himalaya à pied en 1997. Il traverse également les steppes d'Asie centrale à cheval avec la photographe et compagne Priscilla Telmon, sur plus de 3 000 km du Kazakhstan à l'Ouzbékistan. En 2004, il reprend l'itinéraire des évadés du goulag en suivant le récit de Sławomir Rawicz : The Long Walk (1955)1. Ce périple l'emmène de la Sibérie jusqu'en Inde à pied.
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Stefan Hertmans
Stefan Hertmans is a Flemish Belgian author, poet and essayist. He is the author of a literary and essayistic oeuvre - including poetry, novels, essays, plays, short stories. His poetry has been translated into various languages and he has taught at the Ghent Secondary Art Institute and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. He has given lectures at the Sorbonne University, the universities of Vienna, Berlin and Mexico City, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and University College London. His work has been published in The literary Review (Madison) The Review of contemporary fiction (Illinois) and Grand Street (New York). He was awarded the ECI Literatuurprijs and the Golden Book Owl Audience Award for War and Turpentine, a novel
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Joost van den Vondel
Joost van den Vondel (1587 – 1679) was a Dutch author, poet and playwright. The most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century, he is considered the national poet of the Netherlands. His play Gijsbrecht van Aemstel (1637) was performed annually on New Year's Day from 1637 to 1968, and remains one of the Netherlands most famed plays.
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Vondel remained productive until a very old age. Several of his most notable plays like Lucifer (1654) and Adam in Exile (1664) were written when he was already over 65 years old, and his final play Noah, written at the age of eighty, is considered one of his finest. -
P.C. Hooft
People know Dutch playwright and poet Pieter Corneliszoon Hooftalso for his history of the Netherlands.
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Multatuli
Eduard Douwes Dekker, better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860) in which he denounced the abuses of colonialism in the colony of the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia). He is considered one of the Netherlands' greatest authors.
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Determined to expose the scandals he had witnessed during his years in the Dutch East Indies, Douwes Dekker began to write newspaper articles and pamphlets. Little notice was taken of these early publications until, in 1860, he published his satirical anticolonialist novel Max Havelaar: The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company under the pseudonym Multatuli. Douwes Dekker's pen name is derived -
Betje Wolff
Elizabeth Bekker Wolff, beter bekend als Betje Wolff. Er is een 'Museum Betje Wolff' in Middenbeemster, gevestigd in de pastorie waar Betje na haar huwelijk met dominee Adrianus Wolff heeft gewoond en waar zij een aantal van haar boeken heeft geschreven (adres: Middenweg 178, Middenbeemster). Het huis in De Rijp (Rechtestraat 40), waar Betje Wolff samen met Aagje Deken heeft gewoond na de dood van dominee Wolff, is niet opengesteld voor publiek. Het huis heeft een gedenksteen in de gevel. Elizabeth Bekker Wolff was also known as Betje Wolff.
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Lara Taveirne
Lara Taveirne schreef een thesis over liefdesverdriet. Ze schreef ook een keer een brief, waarmee ze zichzelf toegang verleende tot een vervallen sluiswachtershuis. Dertien jaar lang woonde ze onder een lek dak, verstoken van luxe en lawaai, maar dicht bij de natuur. Zo nu en dan schrijft ze ook een roman, zoals De kinderen van Calais (winnaar Debuutprijs 2015) en Wolf (longlist Libris Literatuur Prijs 2025).
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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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Anna Bijns
De vader van Anna Bijns (1493-1575), Jan Bijns, was kousen- (of eigenlijk broeken-)maker en wellicht ook rederijker. Anna bracht haar jeugd door in het huis ‘De Cleyn Wolvinne’ aan de Grote Markt (nu nummer 46). Ze had een zuster, Margriete (geboren in 1495) en een broer, Marten (geboren in 1497). Na het overlijden van vader Bijns in 1516 verkocht Anna’s moeder, Lijsbeth Voochs, het huis aan de Grote Markt om Marten en Margriete hun erfdeel te kunnen uitbetalen. Marten en Anna betrokken samen met hun moeder vervolgens het huis ‘De Patiencie’ in de Keizerstraat. Marten opende er een schooltje waar ook Anna les gaf.
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Roger Martin du Gard
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1937 "for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in his novel cycle Les Thibault."
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Roger Martin du Gard (23 March 1881 - 22 August 1958) was a French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature. Trained as a paleographer and archivist, Martin du Gard brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for details. For his concern with documentation and with the relationship of social reality to individual development, he has been linked with the realist and naturalist traditions of the 19th century. His major work was Les Thibault, a roman fleuve about the Thibault family, originally -
Maurice Gilliams
Maurice Guillaume Rosalie Gilliams was een Vlaamse schrijver, dichter en essayist.
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Maurice Gilliams was a Flemish writer and poet.
He was a typograph and a lecturer on typography at the Vakschool voor Kunstambachten in Antwerp. From 1947 until his death in 1982 he became a member of the Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde. From 1960 until 1976 he held the position of secretary of the academy in Ghent.
His writings are autobiographical, and generally concern his failed marriage and his lost youth. He wrote both poems and prose. His most rekno -
Ingrid Vander Veken
Ingrid Vander Veken is een Vlaamse schrijfster.
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Ingrid Vander Veken is a Flemish writer.