Brazilian author Paulo Setúbal wrote a historic novel about John Maurice and the Dutch settlement in Brazil, O Príncipe de Nassau ("The Prince of Nassau", translated into Dutch by R. Schreuder and J. Slauerhoff in 1933 as Johan Maurits van Nassau).
Its editors have included a number of well-known Dutch writers, media figures and politicians, including the polemicist Menno ter Braak, poet and novelist J. Slauerhoff and former EU Commissioner Frits Bolkestein.