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Was the Dutch writer really such an anti-colonial rebel? And what about his preference for young girls?
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Was the Dutch writer really such an anti-colonial rebel? And what about his preference for young girls?
A short biographical article about Henriette Roland Holst-van der Schalk, poetess, writer and socialist. One of the most revered women in the history of the Netherlands and a great international figure, she owes her reputation to her politi...
On 16 November, at the age of 57, Dutch writer Henk van Woerden died in his sleep in Ann Arbor as the result of cardiac arrest. Van Woerden had been delighted with all the enthusiastic reviews of his latest 'Ultramarine', a novel that if on...
When Flemish author Dimitri Verhulst (Aalst, 1972) took the literary world by surprise with his tragicomic autobiographical novel The Misfortunates (De helaasheid der dingen) in 2006 he was still a complete unkown. Of the nine books he had...
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