Harry Mulisch

Harry Mulisch was born in Haarlem in 1927, the son of an Austrian father employed by a bank that managed the property confiscated from Dutch Jews, and of a Jewish mother whom this position saved from deportation; his father served three years in prison after the war. The war, which spans the whole of his formative years, marks his entire work. A journalist and essayist, he followed the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem and drew a book from it in 1963. Regarded together with Hermans and Reve as one of the three great writers of his time, he received the Prize for Dutch Literature in 1995, and died in 2010.

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• NovelThe AssaultDe aanslagHarry Mulisch · 1982Literature