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What should I read in Dutch for beginners?
1. Minoes (Beginner) This children's book is a great place to start for beginners learning Dutch because the language used in it is relatively simple and easy to understand. Written by famous Dutch children's author Annie M.G. Schmidt, Minoes is about a cat that turns into a human woman..
Who are the authors of the contemporary period?
The Contemporary period of American literature began in 1945. This time period includes numerous award winning authors, including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, and Colson Whitehead, to name a few. This guide highlights key figures and provides links for further research..
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How did Dutch literature affect Indonesia?
Written in 1860, this is a piece of 19th Century Dutch literature that had a profound political impact. What is now Indonesia was once the Dutch East Indies, first controlled by the VOC and then later by the Dutch government. Under Dutch oppression, the people of Indonesia worked under forced labour and were made addicted to opium.
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What was literature like in the Netherlands before 1880?
For the thirty or forty years preceding 1880 the course of literature in the Netherlands was smooth and even sluggish. The Dutch writers had slipped into a conventionality of treatment and a strict limitation of form from which even the most striking talents among them could scarcely escape.
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Where does Dutch literature come from?
Dutch literature is not restricted to the Netherlands, Flanders (Belgium), Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles, as it has also been produced in other (formerly) Dutch-speaking regions, such as:
French Flanders
South Africa and the former Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia).
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Who were the 'Big Three' of Dutch postwar literature?
Reve and Hermans are often cited together with Harry Mulisch as the "Big Three" of Dutch postwar literature. Around 500 AD, Old Frankish evolved to Old Dutch, a West Germanic language that was spoken by the Franks and to a lesser extent by people living in the regions conquered by the Franks.
This article deals with literature written in Dutch during the 19th century in the Dutch-speaking regions.
Contemporary dutch literature
Dutch language regulator
The Dutch Language Union is an international regulatory institution that governs issues regarding the Dutch language. It is best known for its spelling reforms which are promulgated by member states, grammar books, the Green Booklet and its support of Dutch language courses and studies worldwide. It was founded on a treaty concluded between the Netherlands and Belgium on 9 September 1980. Suriname has been an associate member of the Taalunie since 2004.
Flemish literature is literature from Flanders, historically a region comprising parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Until the early 19th century, this literature was regarded as an integral part of Dutch literature. After Belgium became independent from the Netherlands in 1830, the term Flemish literature acquired a narrower meaning and refers to the Dutch-language literature produced in Belgium. It remains a part of Dutch-language literature.
Medieval Dutch literature
Middle Dutch literature (1150–1500) is the Dutch literature produced in the Low Countries from the 12th century to the 16th century. It is preceded by only a few fragmentary texts existing in Old Dutch, and it was succeeded by Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature.
