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Ferdinand Bordewijk

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Ferdinand Bordewijk (10 October 1884 – 28 April 1965) was a Dutch author. His style, which is terse and symbolic, is considered to belong to New Objectivity and magic realism. He was awarded the P. C. Hooft Award in 1953 and the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1957. He wrote novels and short stories; of his novels, his 1938 ''Character'' is canonical in the Netherlands, and was the basis for ''a 1997 film of the same name''. Provided by Wikipedia