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- Pol Hoste (in Dutch)
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Paul Gustaaf Julia Hoste (born 25 March 1947 in Lokeren), pseudonym Pol Hoste is a Belgian writer. He graduated in Germanic philology at the University of Ghent. He started his career as a teacher of the English and Dutch languages. From 1983 until 1985 he was an editor at Heibel and made contributions to De Morgen, De Nieuwe and the Volkskrant.
Jan Hendrik Wolkers was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter.
Cees Nooteboom is a Dutch novelist, poet, and journalist. After the attention received by his novel Rituelen, which received the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press of the United States. LSU Press published his first two novels in English in the following years, as well as other works through 1990. Harcourt and Grove Press have since published some of his works in English.
Renate Maria Dorrestein was a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist. She started working as a junior journalist for the Dutch magazines Libelle and Panorama. During the period 1977 - 1982 she published in Het Parool, Viva, Onkruid and Opzij. Dorrestein published her first novel (Buitenstaanders) in 1983. Her sister's suicide had a great influence on her books. Dorrestein won the Annie Romein prize in 1993 for her complete body of work. A lot of Dorrestein's books were translated, and they were sold in 14 countries.
Geert Joël Joseph Hoste is a Flemish cabaret performer. Between 1988 and 2011 he was known for his cabaret shows which poked fun at politics, the Belgian royal family and media stories. Annually these shows were broadcast on Flemish public television, traditionally on New Year's Day, and brought in high ratings.
George Wilhelm Kettmann or George Kettmann Jr. was a Dutch poet, writer, journalist and publisher who promoted Nazism in the Netherlands. With his wife, he founded the best known Dutch National Socialist publishing house, De Amsterdamsche Keurkamer. Until 1941 he was editor in chief of Volk en Vaderland, the weekly journal of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), the movement of Anton Mussert.
The Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord is a symbolic award created in 1951 by Herman Teirlinck and the editorial team of the Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift to counteract ideologically driven restrictions on the freedom of expression.
Ferdinand Van der Auwera, pseudonym Fernand Auwera is a Belgian writer. His fragile health during his youth and its impact on his life (solitude), had an effect on his first literary work.
Clem Schouwenaars was a Belgian writer. He grew up in a Roman Catholic family. His youth was not a happy one. Two of his brothers and one of his sisters died young, and his only remaining sister was killed during a bombardment in 1943. His mother died in 1960, and some time later his father committed suicide.
Gerrit Krol was a Dutch author, essayist and writer.
Michaël Henricus Gertrudis (Michiel) van Kempen is a Dutch writer, art historian and literary critic. He has written novels, short stories, essays, travel literature and scenarios. He was the compiler of a huge range of anthologies of Dutch-Caribbean literature and wrote an extensive history of the literature of Suriname, in two volumes.
Judith Frieda Lina Herzberg is a Dutch poet and writer.
The Huizinga Lecture is an annual lecture in the Netherlands about a subject in the domains of cultural history or philosophy. The lecture is in honour of Johan Huizinga, a distinguished Dutch historian (1872–1945) who worked in the first half of the 20th century. The Lecture is organized by nationwide daily general newspaper NRC Handelsblad, the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University, and the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde. Attendance at the lecture was free of charge for subscribers to NRC Handelsblad, members of the Faculty of Humanities, and members of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde until 2010. From 2011 onwards tickets have to be bought. The lecture is held alternately by a Dutch and a non-Dutch intellectual.
Pierre H. Dubois was a Dutch writer and critic. He was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1952, for Een houding in de tijd, and again in 1985.
Sybe Minnema, known by his pen name Sybren Polet, was a Dutch prose writer and poet. He won numerous awards, among them the 2003 Constantijn Huygens Prize.
Robert Nieuwenhuys was a Dutch writer of Indo descent. The son of a 'Totok' Dutchman and an Indo-European mother, he and his younger brother Roelof, grew up in Batavia, where his father was the managing director of the renowned Hotel des Indes.
Jacob Julius Max Nord was a Dutch journalist, writer, and translator. He was one of the main editors of Het Parool, an illegal Dutch newspaper founded during World War II.
Maxim Februari, pseudonym of Maximiliaan (Max) Drenth, is a Dutch writer, philosopher and columnist.
A Cabinet of Curiosities is a 1619 oil on panel painting of a cabinet of curiosities by the Flemish painter Frans Francken II. It is now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, which bought it in 1903 from the Antwerp-based art dealer Joseph Hallyn.
Peter van Gestel was a Dutch writer.
Johan van Dorsten was a Dutch writer of Protestant Christian novels.
