Meesterstuk anna enquist biography
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Anna Enquist
Dutch writer (born )
Anna Enquist | |
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Anna Enquist () | |
| Born | Christa Widlund-Broer () 19 July (age79) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Occupation(s) | Poet and writer |
Anna Enquist (born 19 July ) is the pen name of one of the more popular authors in the Netherlands, Christa Widlund-Broer. She is known for both her poetry and her novels.[1]
Biography
[edit]Born in Amsterdam, Enquist studied piano at the music academy in The Hague and psychology at Leiden University.[2] Her first poems appeared in the journal Maatstaf in , while her first collection Soldatenliederen (Soldiers' Songs) was published in , while she was still working as a psychoanalyst. In , she received the C. Buddingh'-prijs for her debut poetry collection.[3] Thereafter she devoted most of her time to literature. On the poetry front, she published six more collections: Jachtscènes (Hunting Scenes; ), Een nieuw afscheid (A New Goodbye; ), De tweede helft (The Second Half; ), Hier was vuur (Here Was Fire; ), De tussentijd (The Interval; ) and Nieuws van nergens (News from Nowhere; ). They have all been published in one volume as Gedichten .[4]
Enquist's first prose works, Het meesterstuk (The Mast
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Elegiac elegance
A sideview of renowned Dutch man of letters Anna Enquist.
By BARRY DAVIS•
Anna Enquists The Homecoming newly published in English on Amazon Crossing
Anna Enquists The Homecoming newly published in English on Amazon Crossing Aril 1,
Celebrated Dutch author Anna Enquists best-selling novel about the wife of eighteenth-century explorer Captain James Cook is newly translated into English by Eileen Stevens, and published by Amazon Crossing.
The Homecoming is an internationally bestselling, award-winning novel peering deep into the passions, losses, and reveries of the wife of eighteenth-century explorer Captain James Cook.
After twelve years of marriage to English explorer James Cook, Elizabeth has yet to spend an entire year with her husband. In their house by the Thames, she moves to the rhythms of her life as a society wife, but there is so much more to her than meets the eye. She has the fortitude to manage the house and garden, raise their children, and face unbearable sorrow by herself―in fact, she is sometimes in thrall to her own independence.
As she prepares for another homecoming, Elizabeth looks forward to James’s triumphant return and the work she will undertake reading and editing his voluminous journals. But will the private life she’s been leading in his absence distract her from her role in aid of her husban