Jacoba van Velde, Dutch author (born 1903)

Jacoba van Velde

Dutch writer, translator and dramaturge

Jacoba van Velde was a Dutch writer, translator, and dramaturge. Her first novel, De grote zaal, appeared in the literary journal Querido in 1953 and was translated into thirteen languages within ten years. During her life around 75,000 copies of De grote zaal were sold. In…