biography
| name: |
Schendel, Arthur van
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pronunciation:
[van skhendel]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1874–1946)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesia. He studied drama in Amsterdam, taught French in Britain, and lived for some years in Italy. With his first work Drogon (1896), he reacted against naturalism and wrote the first Dutch neo-Romantic novel. The recurring theme in his work is the tragic loner, the lonely character who longs for something or someone unreachable. He was awarded the P C Hooft-prijs in 1947. |
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