biography
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| (1940– )
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| Writer, born in Batavia, former Netherlands East Indies. He first worked as a journalist and for a Belgian publisher, and made his debut in 1964 with Het mes op de keel (Knife to the Throat). His later novel Joris Ockeloen en het wachten (1967, Joris Ockeloen and the Waiting) received more widespread public acclaim. He is best known for his dour polemic with the writer Rudy Kousbroek about the historic accuracy of Bezonken Rood (1981, Sunken Red), in which Brouwers mixes autobiographical elements and fiction to describe his life as a small child in a Japanese internment camp. This novel formed part of an autobiographical trilogy, complemented with Het verzonkene (1980, Sunk) and De zondvloed (1988, The Flood). In addition to autobiographical elements, his work is characterized by baroque language, and storylines full of motifs and symbolic significance. |
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