biography
pronunciation:
[hahzuh]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1918– )
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| biography:
| Novelist and essayist, born in Jakarta, Indonesia. She spent most of her childhood in the former Netherlands East Indies, and wrote her first collection of poems, Stroomversnelling (Rapid), in 1945. She became popular with her novel Oeroeg (1948), which describes the tragic friendship between a Dutch boy and an Indonesian boy. She showed her historical interest in a number of novels such as Het woud der verwachting (1949, In a Dark Wood Wandering) and De scharlaken stad (1952, The Scarlet City) and later in De heren van de thee (1992, The Gentlemen of the Tea). These novels are a blend of fiction, biography, essays, and historiography. In addition, she is known as a pungent writer of essays about art and literature, collected in Een kom water, een test vuur (1959, A Bowl of Water, a Firepan of Fire) and Leestekens (1965, Punctation Marks). Among her awards are the Constantijn Huygensprijs (1981) and the P C Hooft-prijs (1983). |
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