biography
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Bruggen, Carry van
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originally Carolina Lea de Haan
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pronunciation:
[van brukhen]
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| Novelist and essayist, born in Smilde, N Netherlands. Born into a Jewish family as Carolina Lea de Haan, sister to the poet Jacob Israël de Haan, she wrote realistic psychological novels, some autobiographical. Her philosophical essays were a source of inspiration for the writer Menno ter Braak, whose Carnaval der Burgers echoes her name. |
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