P. C. Hooft Award Winners - Abel Herzberg, Abram de Swaan, Adriaan Roland Holst, Albert Alberts, Amoene Van Haersolte, Anton Koolhaas, Anton Van D (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Abel Herzberg, Abram de Swaan, Adriaan Roland Holst, Albert Alberts, Amoene van Haersolte, Anton Koolhaas, Anton van Duinkerken, Arthur Lehning, Arthur van Schendel, Cees Nooteboom, Charlotte Mutsaers, Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis, Elisabeth Eybers, Ferdinand Bordewijk, Gerard Reve, Gerrit Achterberg, Gerrit Komrij, Gerrit Krol, H. C. ten Berge, Harry Mulisch, Hella Haasse, Hendrik de Vries, Henk Hofland, Hugo Brandt Corstius, Ida Gerhardt, J. Bernlef, J. C. Bloem, Jan Wolkers, Judith Herzberg, Karel van het Reve, Kees Fens, Leo Vroman, Lucebert, M. Vasalis, Maarten Biesheuvel, Pierre Kemp, Pieter Geyl, Remco Campert, Rudy Kousbroek, Simon Carmiggelt, Simon Vestdijk, Theun de Vries, Tonnus Oosterhoff, Victor E. van Vriesland, Willem Brakman, Willem Frederik Hermans. Excerpt: Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch (29 July 1927 - 30 October 2010) was a Dutch author. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems and philosophical reflections. These have been translated into more than 30 languages. Along with Willem Frederik Hermans and Gerard Reve, Mulisch is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch postwar literature. His novel The Assault became a 1986 film, which won both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. A 2007 poll revealed his 1992 novel The Discovery of Heaven as the "Best Dutch Book Ever." He was regularly thought of as a possible future Nobel laureate. Mulisch was associated with accessories such as his spectacles and pipe. Mulisch was born in Haarlem and lived in Amsterdam from 1958, following the death of his father in 1957, until the end of his own life. Mulisch's father was from Austria-Hungary and emigrated to the Netherlands after the First World War. During the German occupation in World War II his father worked for a German bank, which also dealt with confiscated Jewish assets. His mother, Alice Schwarz, ...