Author · Netherlands
Hella S. Haasse
Died in 2011
Hélène Serafia Haasse, known as Hella, was born in Batavia, in the Dutch East Indies, on 2 February 1918, the daughter of a finance inspector and a concert pianist, and spent almost all her youth there. Arriving in the Netherlands in 1938, she briefly studied Scandinavian languages in Amsterdam, then entered drama school, which she left in 1943, and wrote texts for Wim Sonneveld's cabaret. Married in 1944 to Jan van Lelyveld, she then devoted herself to writing. Winner of the Prize for Dutch Literature in 2004, she died in Amsterdam on 29 September 2011, aged ninety-three.
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- NovelThe Black LakeOeroegHella S. Haasse · 1948Literature