biography
pronunciation:
[kraymer]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1940– )
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| biography:
| Writer and painter, born in Enschede, E Netherlands. He gained instant popularity in 1964 with his first novel Ik, Jan Cremer (I, Jan Cremer), a 20th-c picaresque novel with autobiographical elements which was announced as an ‘inevitable best seller’. The book is currently up to its 47th reprint. At the time, the novel, which expressed the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s, caused a public stir due to the abundant presence of sex and violence. Its sequel Ik, Jan Cremer II (1966, I, Jan Cremer II) was less successful and more parodic in nature. Subsequently, he mainly concentrated on his career as a visual artist. In 1984 he made a come-back as a writer with the publication of De Hunnen (The Huns), an epic about World War 2 within the broader framework of power and violence, representing the struggle of the individual against the world. |
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