Portal:Dutch literature
Dutch literature comprises all writings of literary merit written through the ages in the Dutch language, a language which currently has around 23 million native speakers. Dutch literature is not restricted to the Netherlands, Flanders (Belgium), Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles, as it has also been produced in other (formerly) Dutch-speaking regions, such as French Flanders, South Africa and the former Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia). Alternatively, Dutch literature was and is produced by people originally from abroad who came to live in Dutch-speaking regions, such as Anne Frank and Kader Abdolah.
General works
[edit]- "Dutch Literature," by Edmund William Gosse in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Renaissance
[edit]- "Chapter 1: Holland—Verse and Prose" and "Chapter 2: Holland—Drama", 1906 in The First Half of the Seventeenth Century by Herbert J. C. Grierson. In Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman. Periods of European Literature. vol. 7, pp. 1-83.
- Charter of the Dutch West India Company, 1621 by the States General of the United Netherlands, translated by Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer
- Amplification of the Charter of the Dutch West India Company, 1622 by the States General of the United Netherlands, translated by Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer
- Amplification of the Charter of the Dutch West India Company, 1623 by the States General of the United Netherlands, translated by Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer
- Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions, 1629 by the Dutch West India Company, translated by Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer
- Notification by Samuel Godyn, Kiliaen van Rensselaer and Samuel Blommaert that they send two persons to New Netherland to inspect the country, 1629 by Samuel Godyn, Kiliaen van Rensselaer, and Samuel Blommaert, translated by Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer
- Registration by Kiliaen van Rensselaer and associates of a colony above and below Fort Orange, on both sides of the North River, 1629 by Johannes Dijckman, translated by Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer
- Contract of sale of land along the Hudson River from the Mahican Indians to Kiliaen van Rensselaer, 1630 by Sebastiaen Jansen Krol, translated by Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer
- Instructions to Bastiaen Jansz Krol from Kiliaen van Rensselaer, January 10, 1630 by Kiliaen van Rensselaer, translated by Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer
Early modern
[edit]- "Chapter 1: Holland—Verse and Prose" and "Chapter 2: Holland—Drama", 1906 in The First Half of the Seventeenth Century by Herbert J. C. Grierson. In Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman. Periods of European Literature. vol. 7, pp. 1-83.
- Max Havelaar, 1860 by Multatuli
- The Relative Motion of the Earth and the Aether, 1892 by Hendrik Lorentz, translated by Wikisource
- Psyche, 1898 by Louis Couperus, translated by Benjamin Shepherd Berrington
- Saidjah by Multatuli, translated by Edna Worthley Underwood
Modern
[edit]- Small Souls, 1901 by Louis Couperus, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
- Old People and the Things that Pass, 1919 by Louis Couperus, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos