The Diary of a Young Girl

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was published in Dutch in 1947 (and in English in 1952), using extracts from the diary she kept while in hiding during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands.

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Anne Frank - Dutch - 1947 - 1952 - Diary - Nazi occupation of The Netherlands

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First published under the title Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944 (The Backhouse: diary notes from 12 June 1942 – 1 August 1944) by Contact Publishing in Amsterdam in 1947, it received widespread critical and popular attention on the appearance of its English language translation Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Doubleday & Company (U.S) and Vallentine Mitchell (U.K) in 1952. Its popularity inspired a play (1955) by the screenwriters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, which they subsequently adapted for the screen (1959). The book is now considered one of the key texts of the twentieth century.

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Frances Goodrich - Albert Hackett

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