13 Facts About Dutch literature

Dutch-language literature is the product of the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, the Netherlands Antilles and of formerly Dutch-speaking regions, such as French Flanders, South Africa, and Indonesia.

Conversely, Dutch-language literature sometimes was and is produced by people originally from abroad who came to live in Dutch-speaking regions, such as Anne Frank and Kader Abdolah.

The best-known of all Dutch literature writers is the Catholic playwright and poet Joost van den Vondel.

The north received a cultural and intellectual boost whereas in the south, Dutch literature was largely replaced by French as the language of culture and administration.

Dutch literature is considered one of the greatest historians, not merely of the Low Countries, but of Europe.

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Best-known of all Dutch literature writers is the Catholic playwright and poet Joost van den Vondel, who mainly wrote historical and biblical tragedies.

Dutch literature was born at Utrecht and was influenced by Huguenot emigres who had fled for the Republic after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.

The Dutch literature writers had slipped into a conventionality of treatment and a strict limitation of form from which even the most striking talents among them could scarcely escape.

Charles De Coster laid the foundations for a native Belgian Dutch literature by recounting the Flemish past in historic romances but wrote his works in French.

Dutch literature lived just long enough to become aware that a revolution was approaching, not to comprehend its character; but his accomplished fidelity to literary principle and his wide knowledge have been honoured even by the most bitter of the younger school.

Dutch literature was no sooner dead than his posthumous poems, and in particular a cycle of sonnets called Mathilde, were published and awakened extraordinary emotion.

Dutch literature held his own without any marked advance towards lucidity or variety.

Dutch literature's written works were influenced by the literary figures of the early 20th century.