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 Translation for 'war novel' from English to Dutch
NOUN   a war novel | war novels
lit.
oorlogsroman {de}
war novel
Partial Matches
lit.
roman {de}
novel
lit.
debuutroman {de}
debut novel
lit.
cultroman {de}
cult novel
lit.
fantasyroman {de}
fantasy novel
lit.
detectiveroman {de}
detective novel
lit.
brievenroman {de}
epistolary novel
lit.
briefroman {de}
epistolary novel
lit.
ridderroman {de}
chivalric novel
lit.
toekomstroman {de}
futuristic novel
lit.
jeugdroman {de}
youth novel
lit.
liefdesroman {de}
romantic novel
lit.
avonturenroman {de}
adventure novel
lit.
misdaadroman {de}
crime novel
lit.
sciencefictionroman {de}
science fiction novel
lit.
lievelings­roman {de}
favorite novel [Am.]
lit.
lievelings­roman {de}
favourite novel [Br.]
lit.werk
romanschrijfster {de}
novel writer [female]
lit.
romanfiguur {de}
character in a novel
lit.
romanlezer {de}
novel reader [reader of novels]
oorlog {de}war
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Usage Examples English
  • Another American writer Dalton Trumbo wrote a bitterly anti-war novel "Johnny Got His Gun" in 1938 which won a National Book Award the following year and was made into a film in 1971.
  • "Johnny Got His Gun" is an anti-war novel written in 1938 by American novelist Dalton Trumbo and published in September 1939 by J.
  • Essentially, this the problem of Osewoudt of the war novel "The Darkroom of Damocles" (1958), who driven to despair to find acceptance for his view of himself.
  • Hersey's war novel "The Wall" (1950) was presented as a rediscovered journal recording the genesis and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.
  • Joseph Heller's absurdist anti-war novel "Catch-22" is set mostly on Pianosa, at a United States Army Air Forces bomber base, during World War II.

  • He was used by Japanese authorities in Korea to organize Korean writers for a Greater East Asia Writer's Conference, the events of which he portrayed with bitterness and cynicism in his post-war novel "The Drunken Ship".
  • Serbian-Portuguese author Dejan Tiago Stankovic published "Estoril, a war novel" in 2016, about Estoril during World War II.
  • "The Ghost Road" is a war novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1995 and winner of the Booker Prize.
  • "Regeneration" is a historical and anti-war novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1991.
  • Andre Norton’s "Star Man's Son" (1952, also known as "Daybreak 2250"), is an early post-nuclear-war novel that follows a young man, Fors, in search of lost knowledge.

  • At the outset of talking pictures, the 29-year-old Milestone brought to bear his talents for an adaption of Erich Maria Remarque's compelling anti-war novel "All Quiet on the Western Front", which stands as the director's "magnum opus".
  • He won international acclaim in 1895 for his Civil War novel "The Red Badge of Courage", which he wrote without having any battle experience.
  • "Catch-22" is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller.
  • He is known for his 1994 historical war novel "Captain Corelli's Mandolin".
  • His 1953 speculative if-the-South-had-won-the-Civil-War novel "Bring the Jubilee" was brought back into print at the time of the Civil War centennial and found an appreciative new audience among Civil War buffs.

  • His next novel, "Hero on a Donkey", "A dark hot nightmare of a war novel...", was first published abroad and only four years later (1967) in Yugoslavia.
  • "So Red the Rose" (1934), perhaps Young's finest novel, had a brief period of popularity as the archetype of the Southern Civil War novel and dealt with the aftermath of the war.
  • In 1984, Ballard won broader recognition for his war novel "Empire of the Sun", a semi-autobiographical account of a young British boy's experiences in Shanghai during Japanese occupation; the story was adapted into a 1987 film directed by Steven Spielberg.
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