Jan Wolkers

Dutch author

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In Dutch literature: The 20th century
…chronologically to the war generation, Jan Wolkers began writing in the 1960s and brought a visual artist’s sensibility to his often brutal stories and novels. Reactions to the painful loss of empire in the East Indies ran the gamut of nostalgia, affection, bitterness, and alienation in the work of Beb…
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