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The Unrelenting World-Picture of Writer Willem Frederik Hermans
31 August 2021
Willem Frederik Hermans (1921-1995) is considered one of the three most important authors in the Netherlands in the postwar period, along with Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve. Writer and former publisher Henk Pröpper first came into contact with adult literature through The Dark Room of Damocles, one
‘Dear Politicians, Reading Must Be Given Top Priority’
5 December 2019
In the Netherlands, schools, libraries and institutes are doing their utmost to get people to read. But according to Henk Pröpper, writing recently in the Volkskrant, this is nowhere near enough. ‘Our politicians need to wake up to the fact that low levels of literacy and book reading have an adv