biography
pronunciation:
[hayruhsma]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1932– )
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He began with the poems De kinderkamer (1954, The Nursery), but became popular as a writer of ironic and slightly melancholic stories and novels. His best-known works are Een dagje aan het strand (1962, A Day at the Beach) which was translated into English and made into a film, and Han de Wit gaat in ontwikkelingshulp (Han de Wit is Joining Foreign Development), a story about a sullen boy entangled in his petty bourgeois environment. With his pornographic works Een hete Ijssalon (1982, A Hot Ice-cream Parlour) and Gelukkige Paren (1984, Happy Couples) he deliberately provoked literary criticism causing a public stir. His ironic style of describing trivial reality has labelled him a neorealistic writer. |
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