Gerard Reve

Gerard Kornelis van het Reve was born in Amsterdam on 14 December 1923, the son of a journalist. A pupil at his city's school of graphic arts from 1945 to 1947, then a journalist at Het Parool, he published his first stories in a magazine in 1946 and at first signed Simon van het Reve. Regarded with Hermans and Mulisch as one of the three great Dutch writers of his time, often at the centre of scandal through his provocations, winner of the P. C. Hooft Prize in 1969 and of the Prize for Dutch Letters in 2001, he died in Zulte, in Belgium, on 8 April 2006.

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