Simon Carmiggelt
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Simon Carmiggelt was a Dutch writer, journalist, and poet who became a well known public figure in the Netherlands because of his daily newspaper columns and his television appearances.
Carmiggelt in 1973
Statue of Simon Carmiggelt with his wife Tiny on a park bench in De Steeg
Renate Rubinstein
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Renate Ida Rubinstein was a German-Dutch writer, journalist and columnist.
Simon Carmiggelt
…with establishing a whole new genre in Dutch literature that found successors like Rudy Kousbroek. In 1977 Carmiggelt started an affair with author Renate Rubinstein. She wrote a book about this, titled Mijn beter ik (My better self), which was published when both she and Simon had died. Carmiggelt's last Kronkel…
Renate Rubinstein