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Margot Dijkgraaf
is a literary critic at the NRC Handelsblad and director of the academic-cultural centre Spui25 in Amsterdam. She is author of De pen von Europa. Gesprekken met Europese Schrijvers (2006).
Eurozine Articles
Literary perspectives: The Netherlands
"Profound Holland" and the new Dutch
The new need for security in the Netherlands is reflected in the work of two novelists in particular: Jan Siebelink, whose fiction evokes the "profound Holland" overturned in the 1960s; and Arnon Grunberg, whose portrayals of male disintegration withhold any such reassurances. But a parallel strand of contemporary Dutch literature sidesteps such concerns: novelists and poets with migrant backgrounds introducing new styles into the Dutch literary repertoire. [Lithuanian version added] [more]
29.06.2007