Harry Bekkering

Harry Bekkering (born in 1944 in Roosteren) is a Dutch cultural scientist. He is an author and an associate professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen.[1][2]

Bekkering was born in 1944 in Roosteren.[3] For several years he was professor of Language and Culture Studies at the Radboud University Nijmegen, specializing in children's and youth literature.[4] He obtained his doctorate for research into Simon Vestdijk's essayistics. In the 1980s and 1990s he was a board member and chairman of the Vestdijkkring. He was also a board member of the Jan Campert Foundation. In 1989 he published is first book De eeuw van Sien en Otje. De twintigste eeuw,[5] followed by De hele Bibelebontse berg: De geschiedenis van het kinderboek in Nederland & Vlaanderen van de Middeleeuwen tot heden, published the same year with Querido in Amsterdam.[6]

Works
  • De eeuw van Sien en Otje. De twintigste eeuw (1989)
  • De hele Bibelebontse berg (1989)
  • Veroverde traditie. De poëticale opvattingen van S. Vestdijk (1989)
  • De bloemlezing als breekijzer (1997)
  • Ik had wel duizend levens en ik nam er maar één! Cees Nooteboom (1997)

References
  1. van Lierop-Debrauwer, Helma; Bekkering, Harry (2004). Dat moet je gelezen hebben literaire en educatieve canonvorming in de (jeugd)literatuur (in Dutch). Biblion Uitgeverij. p. 221. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  2. Cartens, Daan (1995). Der Augenmensch Cees Nooteboom (in German). Suhrkamp. p. 297. ISBN 9783518388600.
  3. Ons erfdeel Volume 32 (in French and Dutch). Stichting Ons Erfdeel. 1989. p. 675. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  4. Desmet, Mieke K. T. (2007). Babysitting the Reader Translating English Narrative Fiction for Girls Into Dutch (1946-1995). Peter Lang. p. 45. ISBN 9783039111473. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  5. Mantingh, Erwin; Aussems, Mark (2008). Kijk op de Middeleeuwen (in Dutch). Verloren. p. 240. ISBN 9789087040666. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  6. Pettegree, Andrew; der Weduwen, Arthur (2019). The Bookshop of the World Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age. Yale University Press. p. 421. ISBN 9780300230079. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
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