Harry Mulisch
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Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into 38 languages.
Mulisch in 1981
Harry Mulisch and Sjoerdje Woudenberg on their wedding day in 1971
Mulisch in 2010
Harry Mulisch' grave at Zorgvlied in 2011
The Discovery of Heaven
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The Discovery of Heaven is a 1992 novel by Dutch writer Harry Mulisch. It is considered Mulisch's masterpiece and was voted best book in the Dutch language in a 2007 poll among the readers of NRC Hand
Harry Mulisch
…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. He won the 2007 International Nonino Prize…
First edition cover
Cover of an English translation