Harry Mulisch

Harry Mulisch
Harry Mulisch in 1981
Born	Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch (1927-07-29)29 July 1927 Haarlem, Netherlands
Died	30 October 2010(2010-10-30) (aged 83) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Resting place	Zorgvlied, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Dutch
Period	1952–2001
Genre	Novels, plays, essays, poems
Notable works	The Assault (1982) The Discovery of Heaven (1992)
Notable awards	List
Spouse	Sjoerdje Woudenberg (m. 1971)
Partner	Kitty Saal
Children	Anna (1971) Frieda (1974) Menzo (1992)
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Website
www.mulisch.nl

Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch ( pronunciation ; 29 July 1927 – 30 October 2010) was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into over 30 languages.

Along with Willem Frederik Hermans and Gerard Reve, Mulisch is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch postwar literature. His novel The Assault (1982) was adapted into a film that won both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. Mulisch's work is also popular among the country's public: a 2007 poll of NRC Handelsblad readers voted his novel The Discovery of Heaven (1992) the greatest Dutch book ever written. He was regularly mentioned as a possible future Nobel laureate.

Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch was born on 29 July 1927 in Haarlem in the Netherlands. Mulisch's father was from Austria-Hungary and emigrated to the Netherlands after the First World War. During the German occupation in World War II his father worked for a German bank, which also dealt with confiscated Jewish assets. His mother, Alice Schwarz, was Jewish. Mulisch and his mother escaped transportation to a concentration camp thanks to Mulisch's father's collaboration with the Nazis, but his maternal grandmother died in a gas chamber. Mulisch was raised largely by his parents' housemaid, Frieda Falk. Mulisch said of himself, he did not just write about World War II, he was WWII.