Harry Mulisch: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch
Born	July 29, 1927 • Haarlem • Netherlands
Died	October 30, 2010 (aged 83) • Amsterdam • Netherlands
Notable Works	“Archibald Strohalm” • “Last Call” • “Siegfried” • “The Assault” • “The Discovery of Heaven” • “The Procedure” • “The Stone Bridal Bed” • “Two Women”

Cees Nooteboom

Cees Nooteboom

Dutch author

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Gerard Reve

Dutch author

Betje Wolff, detail of an engraving by Lodewyk Gotlieb Portman after a drawing by Abraham Teerlink after a painting by Petrus Groenia.

Betje Wolff

Dutch author

Agatha Deken, detail of an engraving by L. Portman after a drawing by A. Teerlink after a painting by P. Groenia

Aagje Deken

Dutch author

Multatuli

Multatuli

Dutch author

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Frederik Willem van Eeden

Dutch author and physician

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Jo van Ammers-Küller

Dutch author

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Willem Frederik Hermans

Dutch author

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Maria Dermoût

Dutch author

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Edgar du Perron

Dutch writer and critic

Couperus, engraving by T. Kerstel after a portrait by H.J. Haverman

Louis Marie Anne Couperus

Dutch author

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Simon Vestdijk

Dutch writer

Schendel, detail of an oil painting by Jan Toorop, 1912

Arthur van Schendel

Dutch writer

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Aernout Drost

Dutch author

Heijermans, crayon drawing by Jan Toorop, 1914

Herman Heijermans

Dutch author

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Jan de Hartog

Dutch-American author

Van Lennep, detail of an oil painting by Johan Georg Schwartze; in a private collection

Jacob van Lennep

Dutch writer

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Lodewijk van Deyssel

Dutch author

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Israël Querido

Dutch author

Van Looy, drawing by Jan Pieter Veth, 1896; in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Neth.

Jacobus van Looy

Dutch author and artist