biography
pronunciation:
[skheerbayk]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1918–96)
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in Glanerburg, E Netherlands. He began in 1945 with the novel Terreur tegen terreur (Terror vs Terror), an autobiographical account of his experiences in the Dutch resistance during World War 2. A member of the Movement of Fifty, in 1951 he wrote the experimental novel Het boek ik (The Book I). In his prose and poetry he uses collage techniques, different typography, and associative relations intended to break with the conventional representation of reality. In Weerwerk (1977, Keeping it Up), the boundaries between prose and poetry are lifted, and autobiography, philosophy, literature, and literary criticism blend into a whole. In 1991 he was awarded the Constantijn Huygensprijs. |
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