Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch (pronunciation (help·info) [ˈɦÉ'riË
ˈmÊ lɪʃ]; 29 July 1927 â€" 30 October 2010)[1] was a Dutch writer.
He wrote more than eighty novels, plays, essays, poems, and
philosophical reflections.[1] Mulisch's works have been translated
into over thirty languages.[2]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.[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][5]
ˈmÊ lɪʃ]; 29 July 1927 â€" 30 October 2010)[1] was a Dutch writer.
He wrote more than eighty novels, plays, essays, poems, and
philosophical reflections.[1] Mulisch's works have been translated
into over thirty languages.[2]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.[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][5]
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