Against the Status Quo: Louis Paul Boon in a Wider Literary Context
Forty years after his death, the novels of Louis Paul Boon, Flanders' most anti-authoritarian writer, are still worth reading.
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9 ResultsHella S. Haasse and the Historical Novel or: The Triumph of Fact over Fiction
In her career as a historical novelist, Hella S. Haasse (1918-) undertook a journey to find new ways of bringing the past to life. In Haasse's later work there is a growing awareness of the tension between historical fact and the need to co...
The Defiant Muse
Review of 'The Defiant Muse. Dutch and Flemish Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present.' (ed. Maaike Meijer), an anthology of 'woman-identified works'.
Changing Times. Dutch Studies in the Twenty-First Century
Dutch studies is global: it is taught at some two hundred and twenty universities and institutes around the world. Collaboration in teaching and research is widely stimulated with the support of the International Association for Dutch Stud...
Occupied City. Paul van Ostaijen on the Map of Modernism
There are some literary works written in Dutch without which the narrative of literature in Europe is incomplete. Occupied City by the Flemish poet Paul van Ostaijen (1896-1928) is one of them. None of the standard textbooks on modernism i...
Cees Nooteboom to Be Granted Honorary Doctorate by University College London
The Dutch poet, novelist and travel writer will be granted his fourth honorary doctorate.
Harvest of the University Press (autumn 2019)
Our selection of recent university press publications in English on the Low Countries.
Time for Business: Dutch Studies in the UK
In 2019 the oldest Centre for Dutch Studies in the UK, housed at the University College London (UCL), celebrates its centenary. One may ask if there is much cause for celebration.
Double Dutch and Beyond
The United Kingdom and The Netherlands' shared history has a big and often funny impact on each other's language.
