Madelon Székely-Lulofs

Madelon Székely-Lulofs

Birth : 1899-06-24, Soerabaja, Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies [now Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia]

Death : 1958-05-22

History

Magdalena Hermina 'Madelon' Székely-Lulofs (1899–1958) was a Dutch writer and journalist, best known for her novels set in the former Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. After her first novel, Rubber, was published in 1931, she became a famous writer. The novel, inspired by her life on a rubber plantation in Deli, was translated in several languages and turned into a play and a film.

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Madelon Székely-Lulofs

Movies

Rubber
Rubber
Novel
John Van Laer is the overseer of a vast rubber plantation in the Dutch East Indies. His new wife Renee joins him at the plantation, but the monotony of her existence and unbearable heat soon drive her to distraction. One of Van Laer's workmen takes advantage of the boss' absence to seduce Renee.