Nico van Suchtelen
Nico van Suchtelen was a writer, translator, executive secretary and later director of Wereldbibliotheek publishers. He wrote the book 'Eva's Jeugd' (Eva's Childhood), which was read by Anne Frank.
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Nico van Suchtelen (1878-1949) was a writer and translator, executive secretary and later director of Wereldbibliotheek publishers..[1] His book 'Eva's Jeugd' (Eva's Childhood), read by Anne,[2] appeared for the first time in 1923.[3] In his younger years, Van Suchtelen witnessed the rise of socialism and international law. Although he lost much of his optimism after 1914, and foresaw a 'greater catastrophe' in the 1930s, he was convinced that "the state of the world (...) is not utterly hopeless."[4]
Footnotes
- ^ Zie http://dbnl.nl/tekst/bork001nede01_01/bork001nede01_01_1272.php (geraadpleegd april 2014).
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 29 October 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ Zie http://dbnl.nl/auteurs/auteur.php?id=such003 (geraadlpeegd april 2014).
- ^ ‘Een zelfportret’, De Tijd, 26 oktober 1938.