{{short description|Dutch-Canadian author and publisher (born 1928)}} {{Infobox writer | name = Hendrika Ruger | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1928|}} | occupation = Writer, publisher, translator | nationality = Dutch-Canadian | alma_mater = University of Windsor | birth_place = The Netherlands | image = HENNY1960S.jpg | image_size = 100px | caption = Ruger in the 1960s }}
'''Hendrika Ruger''' is a Dutch-Canadian author, publisher, and the founder of Netherlandic Press publishing company.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Palmer|first=Tamara J.|date=Winter 1990|title=Adaptations|url=https://canlit.ca/article/adaptations/|journal=Canadian Literature|issue=127|pages=148}}</ref>
== History == Hendrika Ruger was born in 1928 and began publishing in the late 1950s.{{efn|Although her first book was published in 1981, the Windsor Star reported that Hendrika Ruger was giving scholarly papers as early as 1957.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/501457590/|title='Oriental Nationalism' Discussed at University Women's Meeting|date=February 9, 1957|work=The Windsor Star|page=27}}</ref>}} In 1957, Ruger's paper "National Music" was presented at the University of Windsor's Annual Music Meeting.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/501457590/|title='Oriental Nationalism' Discussed at University Women's Meeting|date=February 9, 1957|work=The Windsor Star|page=27}}</ref> Hendrika Ruger graduated from the University of Windsor in Canada in May 1971.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/502093029/|title=1,200 to Receive Degrees, Diplomas|date=May 22, 1971|work=The Windsor Star|page=50}}</ref> In 1976, Ruger was appointed as a Specialist Librarian at Windsor's Carnegie Library.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Dickson|first=Doris|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/502393887/|title=Appreciation of Heritage|date=September 20, 1976|work=The Windsor Star|page=30}}</ref>
In 1981, Hendrika Ruger founded Netherlandic Press, a publishing company focused on literary works by Dutch-Canadians and Canadians of Dutch descent.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schryer|first=Frans J.|title=The Netherlandic Presence in Ontario: Pillars, Class and Dutch Ethnicity|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press|year=1998|isbn=978-0889203129|pages=408, note 102}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Delafenêtre|first1=David G.|last2=Neijmann|first2=Daisy L.|date=Spring 1997|title=The Netherlandic and Scandinavian Transition in Canada: A Sociological and Literary Perspective|url=https://www.iccs-ciec.ca/documents/86.pdf|journal=International Journal of Canadian Studies|volume=15|pages=229, note 53}}</ref> In the 1980s and 1990s, Netherlandic Press published eight volumes of poetry and short fiction by Dutch-Canadians, as well as several English translations of Dutch texts. Ruger's books have celebrated Dutch-Canadian writers such as Guy Vanderhaeghe, Aritha Van Herk and Ralph D. Witten.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Seiler|first=Tamara Palmer|date=1996|title=Multi-Vocality and National Literature: Toward a Post-Colonial and Multicultural Aesthetic|journal=Journal of Canadian Studies|volume=31|issue=3|pages=148–165|doi=10.3138/jcs.31.3.148|s2cid=145178951}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Horava |first=Tony |date=Spring 1996 |title=Guy Vanderhaeghe: A Bibliography |url=http://www.ecw.ca/Number_58.htm |journal=Essays on Canadian Writing |issue=58 |pages=241–266 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980209065540/http://www.ecw.ca/number_58.htm |archive-date=9 February 1998 |url-status=dead |access-date=6 April 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Ruger|first=Hendrika|title=From A Chosen Land: A Dutch-Canadian Anthology of Poetry and Prose|publisher=Netherlandic Press|year=1983|isbn=978-0919417090|pages=57–64|chapter=Never Sisters - Aritha Van Herk}}</ref> In a review of Hendrika Ruger's book ''Distant Kin'', Tamara J. Palmer wrote that "although it is certainly not heavy handed in its exploration of what might be called 'the Dutch-Canadian experience,' Hendrika Ruger makes clear that the stories and poems collected here do represent recent attempts by the children of immigrants to examine the history of their parents' migration and struggle and to give their discoveries academic or literary form."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Palmer|first=Tamara J|date=1990|title=Books in Review: Adaptations|journal=Canadian Literature|publisher=University of British Columbia|issue=127|pages=149}}</ref>
== Recognition == In 2004, Stephanie Bolster celebrated Hendrika Ruger for Ruger's "ongoing support" of Dutch-Canadian poet Diana Brebner.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Brebner|first=Diana|title=The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems|publisher=McGill-Queens University Press|year=2004|isbn=978-0773528352|editor-last=Bolster|editor-first=Stephanie|pages=165}}</ref>
== Bibliography == As per OCLC Worldcat<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr88008821/|title=Most Widely Held Works by Hendrika Ruger}}</ref>
*''Under Dutch Skies: A Collection of Poems by Dutch Authors'', 1981, {{ISBN|9780919417014}} *''The Revolution Begins in Bruges: A Collection of Poems'' (Translation), 1983, {{ISBN|9780919417052}} *''From a Chosen Land: A Dutch-Canadian Anthology of Poetry and Prose'', 1983, {{ISBN|9780919417090}} *''Distant Kin: Dutch Canadian Stories and Poems'', 1987, {{ISBN|9780919417120}} *''Dutch Quintet: A Collection of Poems and Stories by Dutch-Canadians'', 1988 {{ISBN|9780919417151}} *''Transplanted Lives: Dutch-Canadian Stories and Poems'', 1988, {{ISBN|9780919417137}} *''Insight: Canadian Writers View Holland'', 1988, {{ISBN|9780919417144}} *''Dutch Voices: A Collection of Stories and Poems by Dutch-Canadians,'' 1989, {{ISBN|9780919417175}} *''Buffaloberries and Saskatoons: Stories and Poetry From Western Canada by Dutch-Canadians'', 1991, {{ISBN|9780919417229}}
== Notes == {{Notelist}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links ==
*[https://canlit.ca/publisher/netherlandic-press/ Netherlandic Press]
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