Maria Dermoût
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Maria Dermoût (15 June 1888 – 27 June 1962) was an Indo-European novelist, considered one of the greats of Dutch literature and as such an important proponent of Dutch Indies literature. In December 1958 Time magazine praised the translation of Maria Dermoût's The Ten Thousand Things, and named it one of the best books of the year.
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Born | Helena Anthonia Maria Elisabeth Ingerman (1888-06-15)15 June 1888 |
Died | 27 June 1962(1962-06-27) (aged 74) The Hague, Netherlands |
Occupation | Novelist |
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Whitney Balliett of The New Yorker wrote:
"Mrs. Dermout, in the manner of Thoreau and the early Hemingway, is an extraordinary sensualist. [...] in passages of a startling, unadorned, three-dimensional clarity; often one can almost touch what she describes."[1]