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Harry Mulisch Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch pronunciation (help·info); 29 July 1927 – 30 October 2010)[1] was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections.[1] Mulisch’s works have been translated into over 30 languages.[2]
Along with Willem Frederik Hermans and Gerard Reve, Mulisch is considered one of the “Great Three” of Dutch postwar literature. His novel The Assault (1982) was adapted into a film that won both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.[3] Mulisch’s work is also popular among the country’s public: a 2007 poll of NRC Handelsblad readers voted his novel The Discovery of Heaven (1992) the greatest Dutch book ever written.[4] He was regularly mentioned as a possible future Nobel laureate.[4]
Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch was born on 29 July 1927 in Haarlem in the Netherlands. Mulisch’s father was from Austria-Hungary and emigrated to the Netherlands after the First World War.[1] During the German occupation in World War II his father worked for a German bank, which also dealt with confiscated Jewish assets.[1] His mother, Alice Schwarz, was Jewish. Mulisch and his mother escaped transportation to a concentration camp thanks to Mulisch’s father’s collaboration with the Nazis, but his maternal grandmother died in a gas chamber.[1] Mulisch was raised largely by his parents’ housemaid, Frieda Falk.[1] Mulisch said of himself, he did not just write about World War II, he was WWII.[1]
Harry Mulisch lived in Amsterdam from 1958 until his death in 2010.[5]
Harry Mulisch had two daughters, his daughters Frieda and Anna, with his wife Sjoerdje Woudenberg, and a son, Menzo, from his relationship with Kitty Saal.[6]
A frequent theme in his work is the Second World War. His father had worked for the Germans during the war and went to prison for three years afterwards. As the war spanned most of Mulisch’s formative phase, it had a defining… Source Wikipedia
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