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Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch (1927β2010) was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into over thirty languages. Along with Willem Frederik Hermans and Gerard Reve, Mulisch is considered one of the "Great Three" (De Grote Drie) of Dutch postwar literature. His novel The Assault (1982) was adapted into a film that won both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. A 2007 poll of NRC Handelsblad readers voted his novel The Discovery of Heaven (1992) the greatest Dutch book ever written. He was regularly mentioned as a possible future Nobel laureate. He won the 2007 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
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 influence on his life and work. In 1963, he wrote a non-fiction work about the Eichmann case: Criminal Case 40/61.
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GenderMale
Birthday1927-07-29
Deathday2010-10-30 (83 years old)
Birth PlaceHaarlem, Netherlands
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FatherKurt Mulisch
MotherAlice Schwarz
CitizenshipsKingdom of the Netherlands
AwardsMecca Prize, Athos Prize, Libris Prize, Reina Prinsen Geerligs prize, Cestoda price, Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, De Inktaap, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, International Nonino Prize, ANV-Visser Neerlandia prize for drama, Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren, Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize, Multatuli Award, P.C. Hooft Award, Constantijn Huygens Prize, Anne Frank Prize
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