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Periplus

John Company (1932) [Buy Direct]

by Arthur van Schendel
Translated by Frans van Rosevelt
Original title: Jan Compagnie

Arthur van Schendel was born in Batavia (present-day Jakarta) and became a leading Dutch novelist between the two world wars. In the 1930s he wrote a series of novels on specifically Dutch subjects, (more...)

Country of Origin (1935)

by Edgar de Perron
Translated by Francis Bulhof and Elisabeth Daverman
Original title: Het land van herkomst

Ups and Downs of Life in the Indies [Buy Direct]

by P.A. Daum
Translated by Donald and Elsje Sturtevant
Original title: Ups en downs in het Indische leven

P.A. Daum lived and worked in nineteenth-century Batavia (present-day Jakarta) as a journalist, newspaper editor and novelist. Between 1883 and 1894 he published ten novels, initially as serials in his own newspaper. (more...)

Faded Portraits (1960) [Buy Direct]

by E. Breton De Nijs
Translated by Donald and Elsje Sturtevant
Original title: Vergeelde portretten. Uit een Indisch familiealbum

Breton de Nijs was the literary pseudonym of Rob Nieuwenhuys (1908-99), the grand old man of Dutch colonial literature. Under his own name he published widely in a career spanning almost half a century. (more...)

The Islands (1952) [Buy Direct]

by A. Alberts
Translated by Hans Koning
Original title: De eilanden

In the 1930s, Alberts (1911-1998) served as a colonial civil servant in the Netherlands East Indies and then spent the war in a Japanese concentration camp. He later made a career in the Netherlands as a novelist, historian and translator. (more...)

A Tale from Bali [Buy Direct]

by Vicki Baum
Original title: Liebe und Tod auf Bali

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