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Bookmate was created in 2007 by three former employees of the Russian edition of Look At Me - programmers Andrei Zotov and Egor Khmelev and designer Kirill Ten. In its first version, Bookmate was an aggregator and search engine for bookstores, offering the user the best price. In 2009, the creators relaunched it as a book reading app with ...
Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek. The Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek (CPNB, "Collective Promotion for the Dutch Book") is a Dutch organization that includes representatives of bookstores and publishers, whose goal is to promote Dutch literature.
Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom (Dutch pronunciation: [seːs ˈnoːtəboːm]; born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist.After the attention received by his novel Rituals (Rituelen, 1980), which won the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English-language edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press (LSU ...
Books in the Netherlands. Stumpel bookseller in Hoorn, circa 1910. P. Meijer Warnars' bookshop in Amsterdam, painted 1820 by Johannes Jelgerhuis [1] As of 2018, Wolters Kluwer ranks as the Dutch biggest publisher of books in terms of revenue. [2] [3] [4] Other notable Dutch houses include Brill (est. 1683) and Elsevier (est. 1880).
The Basisbibliotheek (Basic Library of Dutch Literature) comprises a list of 1000 works of Dutch Literature important to the cultural heritage of the Low Countries, and is published on the Digital library for Dutch literature (DBNL). Several of these works are lists themselves; such as early dictionaries, lists of songs, recipes, biographies or ...
The Twin (Dutch: Boven is het stil, lit. 'it is quiet upstairs') is a novel by Dutch writer Gerbrand Bakker. It won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2010, making Bakker the first Dutch writer to win the award, one of the world's richest literary awards, with a € 100,000 prize. [1][2] Boven is het stil was published in 2006 and its ...
9780070635043 [1] OCLC. 1959593. Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter, 1972) is a novel by the Dutch writer Jan Terlouw. [2] The story is about a 15-year-old Dutch boy who lives through the last winter of World War II and is based on the author's recollections; Terlouw was eight when the German army invaded the Netherlands.
The Following Story ( Dutch: Het volgende verhaal) is a 1991 postmodern novel by the Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom. Translations into German ( Die folgende Geschichte) and French ( L'histoire suivante) also appeared that year. [1] After the novel was awarded the 1993 Aristeion European Literary Prize, its English translation appeared in the UK ...