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The Digital Library for Dutch Literature (Dutch: Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren [ˌdiɣiˈtaːlə ˌbiblijoːˈteːk voːr də ˈneːdərlɑntsə ˈlɛtərə(n)] or DBNL [deːbeːʔɛnˈɛl]) is a website (showing the abbreviation as dbnl) about Dutch language and Dutch literature. It contains thousands of literary texts ...
August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". [ 1 ] He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle (or The Century Cycle ) , which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the ...
History of the Dutch language 1901: H.A. Lorentz: Visible and Invisible motion 1902: Betsy Perk: Jacques Perk: 1902: Johann Bernard Krier: De wellevendheid (Dutch edition by A.F. Diepen) 1902: Henriette Roland Holst-van der Schalk: Capital and Labor in the Netherlands 1902: Hugo de Vries: Theorie en ervaring op het gebied der afstammingsleer ...
[1] [2] Conversely, Dutch-language literature sometimes was and is produced by people originally from abroad who came to live in Dutch-speaking regions, such as Anne Frank and Kader Abdolah. In its earliest stages, Dutch-language literature is defined as those pieces of literary merit written in one of the Dutch dialects of the Low Countries.
The Dutch public originally voted for their best-loved books from a "long-list". The long-list also contained Flemish authors like Louis Paul Boon, Hugo Claus and Willem Elsschot. From this, a "short-list" of ten books was drawn up for further voting. In March 2007 the final voting as shown below was presented on the Dutch national television.
Joe Turner's Come and Gone is the second in a series of August Wilson's The Century Cycle, which chronicled the struggles and lives of African Americans in the 20th century. Joe Turner's Come and Gone is set in the second decade of the 20th century and chronicles the lives of a few freed former enslaved African Americans in the North and deals ...
The Dutch Wikipedia (Dutch: Nederlandstalige Wikipedia) is the Dutch-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. It was founded on 19 June 2001. As of February 2025, the Dutch Wikipedia is the sixth-largest Wikipedia edition, with 2,178,993 articles. It was the fo
The Word list of the Dutch language (Dutch: Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal [ˈʋoːrdə(n)ˌlɛist ˈneːdərlɑntsə ˈtaːl]) is a spelling dictionary of the Dutch language (Dutch orthography). It is officially established by the Dutch Language Union ( Nederlandse Taalunie ).