biography
pronunciation:
[rüpzahmen]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1934– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Batavia, former Netherlands East Indies. She worked as a journalist, and made her literary debut in 1964 with De Kameleon (The Chameleon), a collection of stories. In her fiction, the main characters are women who try to come to terms with the temptations of life, decay, and old age. In 1997 she attracted a large reading public with Het lied en de waarheid (The Song and the Truth), an autobiographical account of her childhood memories of the former Netherlands East Indies. |
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