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Holland (publisher)
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Dutch people
The Dutch people are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United...
publishing house of books for children and books for adults, founded in 1921 by Jan Bernhard van Ulzen in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
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From 1921 until 1951
After having worked a few years as a sales representative for several publishing houses Jan Berhard van Ulzen established his own publishing business at his home address. The first publications were financed by his wife who had been a successful fashion cutter in Paris. After a few years the business could be located on the canel Herengracht in Amsterdam. In these years Holland specialized in social, Christian publications by original Dutch writers. A few translations were published, for instants (1937) Søren KierkegaardSøren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel...
, (1951) Pär Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951.Lagerkvist wrote poems, plays, novels, stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s...
, and (1940) Denis de Rougemont
Denis de Rougemont
Denis de Rougemont was a Swiss writer, who wrote in French.He studied at the University of Neuchâtel, and then moved to Paris in 1930. There he wrote for and edited various publications, associating with the personalist groupings and the non-conformists of the 1930s...
. Next to books Holland also published a Christian literary magazine called Opwaartsche Wegen, which was published for 17 years. Poetry was published since 1950 in a series called De Windroos
From 1951 until 1981
Haarlem
Haarlem is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland, the northern half of Holland, which at one time was the most powerful of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic...
was more suitable with storage possibilities on the ground floor.
In 1955 (Bonte Boekjes series) he started with children’s book. For these scripts he asked poets as he thought the imagination for poetry must be the same as for children’s books. Important writers of these days were Hans Andreus, Paul Biegel
Paul Biegel
Paul Biegel was a successful and prolific Dutch writer of children's literature.-Biography:...
, Mies Bouhuys, Mieke van Hooft and Harriet Laurey.
From 1981 until today
In 1981 Rolf van Ulzen was assisted by his son Ruurt van Ulzen, who succeeded in 1987. The children’s books were expanded by new Dutch authors, such as:- Thea Dubelaar
- Wilma Geldof,
- Thijs Goverde,
- Leny van Grootel,
- Henk Hardeman,
- Gonneke Huizing,
- Henk van Kerkwijk,
- Peter Smit (writer)Peter Smit (writer)Peter Smit is a Dutch children's writer and publicist. From 1997-2001, he belonged to the Foundation Board LIRA, and from 1998 to 2004 he sat on the board of the Association of Writers. Since 2004 he has been director of the Foundation P.C. Hooft Prize. From 1995, Smit specialized in writing young...
Translated children's book writers
From several foreign children’s book writers translations were made, such as:From English
- Joan AikenJoan AikenJoan Delano Aiken MBE was an English novelist. She was born in Rye, East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father, American poet Conrad Aiken , her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge and her brother John Aiken Joan Delano Aiken MBE (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English novelist....
- Malcolm BosseMalcolm BosseMalcolm Joseph Bosse was an American author of both young adult and adult novels. His novels are often set in Asia, and have been praised for their cultural and historical information relating to the character's adventures. Bosse mostly wrote historical fiction novels after the publication of The...
- Susan CooperSusan CooperSusan Mary Cooper is an English author best known for The Dark Is Rising, an award-winning five-volume saga set in and around England and Wales. The books incorporate traditional British mythology, such as Arthurian and other Welsh elements with original material ; these books were adapted into a...
- Gary CrewGary Crew-Life:Gary Crew was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 23 September 1947. An illness during childhood kept him home from school but enabled him to develop an interest in reading adventure stories....
- Scott O'DellScott O'DellScott O'Dell was an American children's author who wrote 26 novels for young people, along with three novels for adults and four nonfiction books...
- Paula FoxPaula FoxPaula Fox is an American author of novels for adults and children and two memoirs. Her novel The Slave Dancer received the Newbery Medal in 1974; and in 1978, she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. More recently, A Portrait of Ivan won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2008.Her...
- Frances Mary Hendry
- Mollie HunterMollie HunterMaureen Mollie Hunter McIlwraith, more commonly known as Mollie Hunter , is a Scottish writer. Born and bred near Edinburgh in the small village of Longniddry. She currently resides in Inverness. Her debut was The Smartest Man in Ireland in 1963. She writes fantasy for children, historical stories...
- Gene KempGene KempGene Kemp Nee Rushton is a British author best known for her children's books. Her first novel, The Pride of Tamworth Pig was published in 1972. She won The Other Award in 1977 and the UK Carnegie Medal in 1978 for The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler ...
- Sue MayfieldSue MayfieldSue Mayfield is an author for children and young adults. She studied English at Oxford University and lives with her husband in England.-Young adult fiction:*Damage*Poisoned*Voices*Reckless*Blue*Patterns in the Sand...
- Mary Norton (author)Mary Norton (author)Mary Norton, née Pearson, was an English children's author. Her books include The Borrowers series.-Background:...
- Katherine PatersonKatherine PatersonKatherine Paterson is an American author of children's novels. She wrote Bridge to Terabithia and has received several of the major international awards for children's literature.- Early life:...
- Arthur RansomeArthur RansomeArthur Michell Ransome was an English author and journalist, best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. These tell of school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. Many of the books involve sailing; other common subjects...
- Elizabeth George SpeareElizabeth George SpeareElizabeth George Speare was an American children's author who won many awards for her historical fiction novels, including two Newbery Medals. She has been called one of America’s 100 most popular children’s authors and much of her work has become mandatory reading in many schools throughout the...
- Catherine StorrCatherine StorrCatherine Storr was an English children's writer, best known for her novel Marianne Dreams and for a series of books about a wolf ineptly pursuing a young girl, beginning with Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf.-Life:She was born in Kensington, London, one of three children of a barrister, Arthur...
- Mildred D. TaylorMildred D. TaylorMildred DeLois Taylor is an African American author, known for her works exploring the struggle faced by African-American families in the Deep South....
- Sean Taylor (author)Sean Taylor (author)Sean Taylor is a British author of children's books. He grew up in Surrey and taught in Zimbabwe before studying at Cambridge, and divides his time between the United Kingdom and Brazil, where his wife is from....
From German
- Karl BrucknerKarl BrucknerKarl Bruckner, was an Austrian children's writer.Committed to peace, international understanding, and social justice, he became one of Austria's leading writers for young people.-Life:...
- Willi Färhrmann
- Ursula Fuchs
- Susanne Fulcher
- Tilde Michiels
- Gudrun Mebs
- Marietta Moskin
- Tillman Röhrig
- Angela Sommer-BodenburgAngela Sommer-BodenburgAngela Sommer-Bodenburg is the author of a number of fantasy books for children. Her most famous contribution to the field of children's fantasy is "The Little Vampire" series which has sold over 10 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages...
- Ingrid Uebe
Others
- Maurice DruonMaurice DruonMaurice Druon was a French novelist and a member of the Académie française.Born in Paris, France, Druon was the nephew of the writer Joseph Kessel, with whom he translated the Chant des Partisans, a French Resistance anthem of World War II, with music and words originally by Anna Marly.In 1948...
- Maria Grippe
- Torill Hauger
- Marita LindquistMarita LindquistMarita Lindquist , a Finnish-Swedish author of many children's books. In addition, she has written song lyrics, illustrated books, worked as a translator, materials writer, producer, former editor and journalist....
Classics like Greek- and Roman Myths by Gustav Schwab
Gustav Schwab
Gustav Benjamin Schwab was a German writer, pastor and publisher.-Life:Gustav Schwab was born in Stuttgart, the son of a professor and was introduced to the humanities early in life...
, Tales of Shakespeare by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb
Mary Lamb
Mary Ann Lamb , was an English writer, the sister and collaborator of Charles Lamb.-Biography:She was born on 3 December 1764. In 1796, Mary, who had suffered a breakdown from the strain of caring for her family, killed her mother with a kitchen knife, and from then on had to be kept under constant...
and small biographies of famous philosophers by Paul Strathern
Paul Strathern
Paul Strathern is a British writer and academic. He was born in London, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, after which he served in the Merchant Navy over a period of two years. He then lived on a Greek island. In 1966 he travelled overland to India and the Himalayas...
were published in Dutch translation.
Sources
- Uitgeverij Holland homepage
- Dutch Publishers Association
- Dutch Wikipedia
- Independent Dutch Publishers
- Interview in Boekenwereld by Prof. Dr. Lisa Kuitert with Ruurt van Ulzen, Jaargang 19, nummer 1, oktober 2002
External links
- http://www.uitgeverijholland.nl Website of Holland