Augusta na Wit

Augusta de Wit (25 Nuwamba 1864 - 9 Fabrairu 1939) marubuci ne ɗan ƙasar Holland, an haife shi a ƙasar East Indies ta ƙasar Netherlands kuma an fi saninsa da rubutu game da Java .

 Rayuwa ta farko 
An haifi Anna Augusta Henriette de Wit a Sibolga, Sumatra, 'yar Jan Karel de Wit (1819–1884), wani jami'in mulkin mallaka wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin Jakadan Holland a Japan, da Anna Maria Johanna de la Couture (1837–1895). Tana da 'yan'uwa mata Louise da Caroline, da ɗan'uwa Karel. Ta yi karatu a Utrecht da Ingila .

 Sana'a 
Augusta de Wit ta fara aikinta a matsayin malamar makaranta a makarantarta ta ƙarshe, makarantar 'yan mata da ke Utrecht. Ta koma East Indies a shekarar 1894, kuma ta koyar a makarantar 'yan mata da ke Batavia . Saboda dalilai na lafiya, ta bar aji ta zama marubuciya, tana ba da gudummawa ga Straits Times tun daga shekarar 1896.  Ta buga tarin labaranta  a matsayin littafi mai zane,  Gaskiya da Tunani game da Java (1898),   tana mai cewa "'Yan Holland ba sa fahimtar Javanese, haka nan kuma Javanese ba sa fahimtar Hollanders, ta kowace ma'anar kalmar." 

Bayan haka, wasu littattafai sun biyo baya, ciki har da littafin Orpheus a cikin de Dessa (1903), Island-India (1923), da De wijdere wereld (1930). Ta kuma rubuta gajerun labarai, kuma ta yi wa DH Lawrence wasiƙa game da fassara ayyukansa zuwa Dutch. A matsayinta na mai sukar adabi a Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, de Wit ya yaba da aikin Edith Wharton .

 Rayuwa ta sirri 
Augusta de Wit ta yi rashin lafiya tsawon shekaru da dama kafin ta mutu a shekarar 1939, tana da shekaru 74, a Baarn . "Ta kasance cikin marubuta kamar  ", , da '  kuma marubuciya ce ta gaskiya mai tsauri tare da taɓawa ta Gabas," in ji jaridar New York Times a cikin ɗan gajeren bayanin mutuwarta.  A cikin 'yan shekarun nan, galibi ana ambaton ayyukanta a cikin mahallin mata marubuta da mulkin mallaka na Holland .   

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