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Harry Mulisch

WRITER

1927 - 2010

Harry Mulisch

Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɑri ˈmulɪɕ]; 29 July 1927 – 30 October 2010) was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Mulisch has received more than 205,387 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Harry Mulisch is the 827th most popular writer (up from 1,013th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 136th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Dutch Writer.

Harry Mulisch is most famous for his novel "The Assault" which tells the story of a Dutch Jew who survived the Holocaust.

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  • 68.35

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  • 71

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  • 4.64

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Harry Mulisch ranks 827 out of 7,302. Before him are Theodor

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Harry Mulisch

The Discovery of Heaven
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4.17 avg rating — 16,801 ratings — published 1992 — 64 editions
The Assault
3.73 avg rating — 18,440 ratings — published 1982 — 92 editions
Twee vrouwen
3.24 avg rating — 7,085 ratings — published 1975 — 34 editions
Siegfried: A Black Idyll
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3.66 avg rating — 5,366 ratings — published 2001 — 39 editions
Het stenen bruidsbed
3.19 avg rating — 2,898 ratings — published 1959 — 26 editions
The Procedure
3.60 avg rating — 1,706 ratings — published 1998 — 33 editions
De Elementen
3.30 avg rating — 1,064 ratings — published 1988 — 10 editions
De zaak 40-61
3.71 avg rating — 839 ratings — published 1962 — 21 editions
De ontdekking van de hemel I
4.37 avg rating — 691 ratings
Het theater, de brief en de waarheid
3.09 avg rating — 968 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
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Harry Mulisch

Harry Mulisch (1927-2010) was born on July 29, 1927 in Haarlem to a Jewish mother and a half-German, half-Austrian father. After his parents divorced in 1937, he was raised by his father’s German housekeeper. The father was joint director of a banking firm which was a repository for stolen Jewish funds.

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‘I didn’t so much “experience? the war: I am the Second World War,’ Mulisch wrote in the autobiographical Mijn getijdenboek (My Book of Hours, 1975). Het stenen bruidsbed (The Stone Bridal Bed, 1959) is regarded as the best work from his early period. In addition to novels, Mulisch has written plays, poetry, political pieces and philosophical studies. He is one of the most illustrious authors in the Netherlands today. His work is held in high regard, as witness the numerous awards he has received, including the P.C. Hooft Prize (1977), the Constantijn Huygens Prize (1977) and the Dutch Literature Prize (Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren, 1995). Mulisch gained international fame with De ontdekking van de hemel (The Discovery of Heaven,

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