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Also Known As Helena Antonia Maria Elisabeth Dermoût-Ingermann
Born June 15, 1888 • Pekalongan • Indonesia
Died June 27, 1962 (aged 74) • Netherlands
Notable Works theatrical production • “The Ten Thousand Things” • “Yesterday”
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Gerard Reve
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Heijermans, crayon drawing by Jan Toorop, 1914
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Jan de Hartog
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Miguel de Cervantes
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Voltaire
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D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
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Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
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James Joyce
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Samuel Beckett, 1965
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Henry James
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Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
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Nikolay Gogol
Nikolay Gogol
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
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James Baldwin
James Baldwin
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Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
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