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Dutch East Indies literature (Dutch: Indische letteren or Nederlands Indische literatuur, Indonesian: Sastra Hindia Belanda) is the Dutch-language literature of colonial and post-colonial Indonesia from the seventeenth century to the present day. It includes Dutch, Indo-European and Indonesian authors. Its subject matter thematically revolves around the VOC and Dutch East Indies eras, but also includes the postcolonial discourse.

This large full-text database contains about 1350 novels by renowned authors such as Madelon Székely-Lulofs, Beb Vuyk, Edgar du Perron and Multatuli, plays by Victor Ido and Henri van Wermeskerken, and poems by Noto Soeroto and Willem Brandt. Several major novels in this genre have been translated into English.