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Ashoka's Dutch fans
The first biographical novel on Ashoka appeared in Dutch in the Nazi era. Its creation and translation into English are stories in themselves.
In the 1930s a middle-aged schoolteacher in the town of Groningen in the Netherlands set out to compose a fictionalised life of Ashoka, the Mauryan emperor of India. It took Wytze Keuning a decade and a half to write and publish the three volumes of his magnum
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