biography
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Oudshoorn, J van
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pseudonym of Jan Koos Feijlbrief
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pronunciation:
[van owtshohrn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1876–1951)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in The Hague, W Netherlands. He worked as a civil servant for the Dutch ministry of foreign affairs, and lived in Berlin for many years. His novels are pessimistic, written in the naturalist tradition, but excel in their descriptions of obsessed and pathological characters. Appreciation for his work came mostly after World War 2. |
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