![]() ![]() Which books first piqued your interest in the early modern period?Īs a young student, my bible was the Norton Anthology. As a teenager, Donna Tartt’s The Secret History introduced me to the literary love of my life, the unreliable narrator. I also vividly recall my primary school teacher reading us Thea Beckman’s Crusade in Jeans if we finished our lessons early (as we were in the Netherlands, he read the Dutch original of this imaginative historical novel for children set in the 13th century). I stroked and devoured it, dragging it around, reading and rereading. What sort of books inspired you as a child?Īs a seven-year old, I was given an edition of the violent, original versions of Grimms’ Fairy Tales, with dark but spellbinding illustrations by Anton Pieck. ![]()
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