Maria Dermoût, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maria Dermoût

Dutch-Indian writer

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1888

Place of Birth: Pekalongan, Indonesia

Date of Death: 27-Jun-1962

Profession: writer

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Maria Dermoût (15 June 1888 – 27 June 1962) was an Indo-European novelist, considered one of the greats of Dutch literature and as such an important proponent of Dutch Indies literature.
In December 1958 Time magazine praised the translation of Maria Dermoût's The Ten Thousand Things, and named it one of the best books of the year. Whitney Balliett of The New Yorker wrote: "Mrs.
Dermout, in the manner of Thoreau and the early Hemingway, is an extraordinary sensualist.
[...] in passages of a startling, unadorned, three-dimensional clarity; often one can almost touch what she describes."