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Maria Dermot , was an Indo novelist, considered one of the greats of Dutch literature and as such an important proponent of Dutch Indies literature. In December 1958 Time magazine praised the translation of Maria Dermots The Ten Thousand Things, and named it one of the best books of the year among several other iconic literary masterpieces such as Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote, Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak and Lolita by Nabokov.

Dermout is a Dutch novelist born on Java, Dutch East Indies, and educated in the Netherlands, who wrote in Dutch. After completing her education she returned to Java, where she married and travelled extensively across Java and the Moluccas with her husband. In 1933 her husband was pensioned, and the couple returned to the Netherlands. Maria Dermot was widowed in 1952.

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