biography
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Last, Jef
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popular name of Josephus Carel Franciscus
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1972)
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in The Hague, W Netherlands. A much travelled adventurer, he had numerous jobs all over the world. He was a communist and fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War, but mellowed his political ideas after he visited the Soviet Union with André Gide. His fiction is realistic and often incorporates actual events or persons. |
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