Edgar du Perron
Charles Edgar "Eddy" du Perron (born November 2, 1899 in Meester Cornelis near Batavia , Dutch East Indies , † May 14, 1940 in Bergen (North Holland) ) was a Dutch poet , writer and journalist .
Life
Edgar du Perron came from an ancient family with ancestors from France . His parents got very rich in the Dutch East Indies. After they had sold their property overseas, they bought a castle in Gistoux ( Wallonia , Belgium ). He was born on November 2, 1899 in the Dutch East Indies , more precisely in a place called Meester Cornelis at the time near Batavia . Today there are quarters of the Indonesian capital Jakarta . Despite his friendship with the French poet André Malraux, the young Du Perron did not feel happy there and moved to Montmartre near Paris, where he wrote his first works in French, and later to Holland. Du Perron was friends with the painter Carel Willink for some time , who made some book illustrations for him. At that time, Du Perron mainly wrote short stories and poems. In 1931 he co-founded the influential literary magazine Forum . A year later he married Elizabeth de Roos . He fell ill in 1940 and died of heart failure on May 14th.
Works
The novel Het land van herkomst (The Country of Origin, 1935) is considered to be Du Perron's main work . This work is an autobiography commissioned by his wife and set mostly in the Dutch East Indies . The book is classified as one of the most important works in Dutch literature by the Interbellum (1918–1940). Du Perron wrote a great many poems (including the Bundle Parlando , 1930), short stories, magazine and newspaper articles.
Du Perron was critical of the reality at the time, and of the too tolerant attitude towards National Socialism , which he saw as a serious danger, especially in the Dutch East Indies .
To commemorate his works, a literary cooperative was set up in 1994, the E. Du Perron-Genootschap .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Platform, you Edgar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Perron, Charles Edgar du (full name); Perron, Eddy you (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch poet, writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meester Cornelis near Batavia , Dutch East Indies |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1940 |
| Place of death | Bergen (North Holland) |