Culture of The Netherlands - Literature

Literature

Some of the most important and internationally awarded writers are:

16th Century:

  • Desiderius Erasmus

17th Century:

  • Baruch de Spinoza
  • Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
  • Joost van den Vondel

19th Century:

  • Multatuli

20th Century:

  • Louis Couperus
  • Martinus Nijhoff
  • Simon Vestdijk
  • Willem Frederik Hermans
  • Gerard Reve
  • Harry Mulisch
  • Jan Wolkers
  • Cees Nooteboom

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Famous quotes containing the word literature:

    “There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don’t have any faith in mankind, derive enjoyment from too few things. Sometimes these crises give birth to something worth while, sometimes they simply plunge one deeper into depression, but, of course, it is all part of the same thing.”
    —Stefan Zweig (18811942)

    “Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)