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Many short stories and other writings by Neel Doff were published in various periodicals. These texts were cited in various references: i.e. two of the three biographies written about Neel Doff. In 1975, Dutch filmmaker, Paul Verhoeven created the movie Katie Tippel. The movie holds elements of the trilogy, 'Days of Hunger and Distress ...
Title page of Het boek van Ot en Sien Statue of "Ot en Sien", after one of the stories in which they hide from the rain in a barrel. A peat and sod dwelling. Ot en Sien is a Dutch children's book series, written by Hindericus Scheepstra, a teacher in Drenthe, the Netherlands. It centers around two little children, a boy named Ot and a girl ...
Marie "Rie" Cramer (10 October 1887 – 16 July 1977) was a Dutch writer and prolific illustrator of children's literature whose style is considered iconic for the interwar period. For many years, she was one of the two main illustrators for a leading Dutch youth magazine, Zonneschijn (Sunshine).
Noortje Visser: A young girl who is very clumsy and a bit naïve. She has a love for animals, but suffers from arachnaphobia [14] and dislikes cleaning up her room. [15] She is often late for school. [16] Originally the character was about 12 or 13 years old, but she is nowadays around 16. [17] Sander: Her brother, whom she feels annoyed with. [18]
On top of that, she called the traditional "girl books" of her time "slow", preferring to read books aimed at boys. [1] Tonke Dragt's style and themes were considered to be unique in Dutch children's literature as up to the 1960s, most Dutch children's literature was set in a day-to-day realistic setting, involving young children.
Nienke van Hichtum (1860–1939), children's writer in West Frisian and Dutch; Etty Hillesum (1914–1943), diarist and correspondent during the German occupation of Amsterdam; Rozalie Hirs (born 1965), poet and composer; Marjolijn Hof (born 1956), novelist with some works translated into English; Xaviera Hollander (born 1943), call girl and ...
It was the Dutch novelist Theun de Vries who added Hannie Schaft's last words as a poetic license in his book The Girl With the Red Hair (Het meisje met het rode haar, 1956). On 27 November 1945, Schaft was reburied in a state funeral at the Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal .