TNTL 119/3

Diederik Grit

‘De nobelste trek van het Noordelijk ras is zijn nostalgie naar het Zuiden’
Anton van Duinkerken en Scandinavië

Abstract -- In 1929, the Dutch emancipatory Catholic poet, essayist and critic Anton van Duinkerken (pen name of W.J.M.A. Asselbergs, 1903-1968) stayed for four months in Hammerfest in Norway, the world’s northermost Catholic parish. On his way to Hammerfest, he visited the world-famous writer, Nobel Prize Winner and Catholic convert Sigrid Undset. This contact and Van Duinkerken’s long stay in an essentially non-catholic country not only resulted in a large number of articles, an interesting correspondence, a translation of Undset’s catholic essays and novella’s by Van Duinkerken, but also inspired Van Duinkerken’s essay collection Hedendaagsche ketterijen (Today’s heresies).

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