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Herman Johan Robbers
1868–1937
A Dutch novelist, poet, and influential magazine editor, he helped shape literary life in the Netherlands while building a career of his own. His fiction is often linked with clear-eyed realism and a close attention to family and everyday life.
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De roman van Bernard Bandt
by Herman Johan Robbers
About the author
Born in Rotterdam in 1868, Herman Johan Robbers grew up in a book-minded family and began writing early, even contributing to his school paper. His first collection appeared in 1895, and he worked in the book trade before turning fully toward literature and editorial work.
Robbers became an important figure in Dutch literary culture in 1905, when he helped found the Vereeniging van Letterkundigen and took charge of Elsevier's Geïllustreerd Maandschrift. He remained editor there until his death in Amsterdam in 1937, and he was known for encouraging younger writers as well as for his own steady output of novels, stories, poems, and essays.
He is especially remembered as a novelist associated with descriptive realism. Among his best-known works is De Roman van een Gezin, which also reached English readers as The Fortunes of a Household.