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Why Hella S. Haasse's Work Does not Need Introduction Abroad
(Stefanie van Gemert) The Low Countries - 2012, № 20, pp. 290-292
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Hella Haasse, who died in 2011, was a writer with three countries of origin: the Netherlands, Indonesia and France. These origins are represented in her work: fictional returns to colonial and postcolonial Indonesia, French settings, characters and historical figures of several (double) nationalities. The result? 136 translations of circa 28 individual titles into more than 20 languages.
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