biography
pronunciation:
[nohtuhbohm]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1933– )
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in The Hague, W Netherlands. Educated at convent schools, he spent the greater part of his adolescence travelling through Europe. Elements of his travels are apparent in his debut novel Philip en de anderen (1955, Philip and the Others), but he became known as a literary journalist writing travel stories such as Een nacht in Tunesië (1965, A Night in Tunisia). He made his breakthrough as a novelist with Rituelen (1980, Rituals). As a poet, he began with experimental poetry full of associative imagery, but his work gradually became more sober in style. One of the few internationally acknowledged Dutch writers, his work has been translated into several languages, and he was awarded the Constantijn Huygensprijs in 1992. |
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