Hélène "Hella" Serafia Haasse (2 February 1918 – 29 September 2011) was a Dutch writer, often referred to as the "Grande Dame" of Dutch literature, and...
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(translated into English as "The Black Lake") is the first novel by Hella Haasse. First published anonymously in 1948, it has become one of the best-known...
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Other important 20th century authors include Harry Mulisch, Jan Wolkers, Hella Haasse, Willem Frederik Hermans, Cees Nooteboom and Gerard Reve. Various architectural...
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polemicist Menno ter Braak, poet and novelist J. Slauerhoff, Godfried Bomans, Hella Haasse, Hugo Brandt Corstius, sociologist Abram de Swaan, or former EU Commissioner...
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journalist and painter Geert Groote (1340–1384) Arnon Grünberg (born 1971) Hella Haasse (1918–2011), novelist Jan de Hartog (1914–2002), novelist and playwright...
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taught. Writers she has translated include Hafid Bouazza, Louis Couperus, Hella Haasse, W. F. Hermans, Arthur Japin, Erwin Mortier, Multatuli, Cees Nooteboom...
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novel Het Woud der Verwachting / Le Forêt de Longue Attente (1949) by Hella Haasse (translated into English in 1989 under the title In a Dark Wood Wandering)...
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Plesman (1889–1953) (Aviation pioneer) Joop Zoetemelk (1946–) (Cyclist) Hella Haasse (1918–2011) (Writer) Thomas à Kempis (c.1380–1471) (Monk) Koning-Stadhouder...
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the Papal Curia and at the court of France. He had three daughters. Hella Haasse constructed a historical novel around the figure of Giovanni Borgia,...
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Martinus Nijhoff Simon Vestdijk Willem Frederik Hermans Gerard Reve Hella Haasse Harry Mulisch Jan Wolkers Cees Nooteboom The Dutch have a distinct comic...
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