author
Annie Foore
1847–1890
Among the first women to write fiction about life in the Dutch East Indies, she brought a sharp eye and a lively social sense to colonial society. Writing under the name Annie Foore, she became known for stories that mixed observation, satire, and a distinctly female point of view.
2 Audiobooks
Bogoriana: Roman uit Indië
by Annie Foore
Indische Huwelijken
by Annie Foore
About the author
Born Francisca Johanna Jacoba Alberta IJzerman-Junius in Tiel in 1847, Annie Foore was a Dutch writer who spent much of her life in the Dutch East Indies. She published under a pen name and is remembered as one of the early European women authors to write fiction from within that colonial world.
Her work focused on everyday life, social class, and the position of women in the Indies. She is especially associated with Bogoriana, a satirical novel that helped make her name and is still the work most often linked with her today.
Foore died in 1890, but her writing has remained part of the history of Dutch and Dutch East Indies literature. Readers still turn to her for the vivid way she captured the manners, tensions, and contradictions of colonial society.