Paulus Adrianus Daum

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Paulus Adrianus Daum
Pen name Maurits
Occupation Novelist, Journalist
Nationality Dutch
Writing period 1883-1898
Influences

Paulus Adrianus Daum (The Hague, 3 August 1850 – Laag-Soeren, 14 September 1898) was a Dutch author of Dutch East Indies literature of the nineteenth century.

In 1878 he was appointed coeditor of the newspaper De Locomotief (The Locomotive) in Semarang on Java, becoming its editor-in-chief within a year.

Daum's first novel Uit de suiker in de tabak (From Sugar to Tobacco, 1885) appeared originally as a serial in a newspaper in 1883–1884. His other well-known novels are Goena-goena (1989), Indische mensen in Holland (Indies People in Holland, 1890) and Ups en Downs in het Indische leven (Ups and Downs of Life in the Indies, 1892).

[edit] Works

  • 1883 - Uit de suiker in de tabak
  • 1887 - Goena-goena
  • 1888 - Hoe hij raad van Indië werd
  • 1888 - Intimiteiten
  • 1889 - L. van Velton-van der Linden
  • 1890 - Indische mensen in Holland
  • 1892 - 'Ups' en 'Downs' in het Indische leven
  • 1893 - Nummer elf
  • 1894 - Aboe Bakar

[edit] Bibliography

  • Beekman, E. M. "P. A. Daum (1850–1898): Dutch Colonial Society and the American South." In Troubled Pleasures: Dutch Colonial Literature from the East Indies, 1600–1950, 324–391. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.
  • Daum, P. A. (1987). Ups and Downs of Life in the Indies. Translated by Elsje Qualms Sturtevant and Donald W. Sturtevant; edited by E. M. Beekman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 0870235516.
  • (Dutch) Termorshuizen, Gerard. P.A. (1988).Daum: Journalist en romancier van tempo doeloe. Amsterdam: Nijgh and Van Ditmar. ISBN 9023667352.
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