“That question is too good to spoil with an answer.” His last book was the novel Siegfried (2001). Mulisch presided over Dutch literature. “But for me he was a model of discipline and courage, a man who dedicated his entire life to literature and ideas; and he could afford to be generous to other writers because he was on the top of the pile.”In several interviews with The New York Times, Mr. Mulisch said that the Dutch, a nation of avid readers and talented writers, needed a Dutch author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature to draw attention to the country’s literary activity.


Friday November 12 2010, 12.01am, The Times. His father, an Austrian immigrant to the Netherlands and a former army officer, was imprisoned after the war for being a collaborator because he had worked at Lippmann-Rosenthal & Company, a bank that handled confiscated Jewish assets.

“I don’t just remember it, Mr. Mulisch was born on July 29, 1927, in Haarlem. Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch along with W.F. Harry Mulisch Dutch playwright, poet, essayist. He wrote more than eighty novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Harry Mulisch, Dutch Novelist, Dies at 83. He is survived by his former wife and two children, and a third child with his present companion.Harry Mulisch at his home in Amsterdam in 2007. It became a public secret that Mr. Mulisch thought that that winner should be he.After the publication of “Siegfried,” a novel about Hitler, he spoke of his enduring obsession with World War II as a recurring theme in his work. Harry Mulisch, the Dutch novelist whose gift for writing with clarity about moral and philosophical themes made him an enormously influential figure in the Netherlands and earned him recognition abroad, died at his home in Amsterdam on Saturday.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands evoked that sentiment on Sunday, saying: “We all grew up with him. “All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.” He was 83.The cause was cancer, his publisher, De Bezige Bij, said in a statement.Mr. Even as he became the country’s most admired living author, he remained irreverent, prompting critics to call him blustery and arrogant.“He would never backtrack; his self-confidence was as large as his talent,” said Adriaan van Dis, a popular Dutch novelist and friend of Mr. Mulisch.

He wrote more than 30 novels, plays, essays, poems and philosophical reflections. This is the end of an era.”Mr. October 30 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (born 1927) November 1 – Monica Johnson, American novelist (born 1946) November 3 – P. Lal, Indian writer (born 1929) November 4 – Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta, Filipino poet (born 1932) November 5 – Adrian Păunescu, Romanian author …

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Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Hermans and Gerard Reve, is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch postwar literature. “My father took great risks to save my mother and was later condemned as a collaborator.” At the same time, his grandmother died in a gas chamber.

Harry Mulisch écrivain néerlandais (1927-2010) Harry Mulisch escriptor neerlandès. Debórah Dwork is the Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Modern Jewish History and Culture at Clark University and author of Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe . He was raised by a housekeeper, he said.Dutch commentators said that Mr. Mulisch’s death in a sense was the end of a generation of writers who explored the complex aftermath of a war in which good and evil were not as simple as black and white. But it also offers a sweeping discourse on history and art, science and religion, man and God, good and evil. Novelist, poet, and critic, Harry Mulisch (1927-2010) was one of the Netherlands' most prominent writers.


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