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Richard Huijing
Translations by Richard Huijing
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Translated by Richard Huijing
(Anthology)
Thirty authors are featured in this anthology, spanning almost a century, from 1895 to 1990. The pieces range from novella length (and one extract from a novel) to short stories a couple of pages long. Authors appear alphabetically, so that styles and periods are jumbled together; there are, however, (more...) |
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by Connie Palmen
Translated by Richard Huijing
Original title: De wetten
The Laws has all the makings of a cult book. It was Connie Palmen’s first novel, brought her huge commercial success, was selected as European Novel of the Year in 1991 — and remains a demanding, baffling, open-ended philosophical reflection on the writing and reading of novels. (more...) |
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by Boeli van Leeuwen
Translated by Richard Huijing
Original title: Schilden van leem
Like his contemporary Tip Marugg, Boeli van Leeuwen belongs to the white, Protestant, largely Dutch-educated planter class on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, whose conflicting loyalties, guilt and decline he chronicles memorably.
Shields of Clay, his fifth novel, (more...) |
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by Gerard Reve
Translated by Richard Huijing
Original title: Bezorgde ouders
Acknowledged as one of the great stylists of modern Dutch literature, Gerard Reve has, since the 1960s, become increasingly mannered and increasingly explicit about his blend of religiosity (he is a Catholic convert) and sado-masochistic homosexuality. (more...) |
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