Writing

Harry Mulisch

Born — Died

1927-07-29 — 2010-10-30

Place of birth

Haarlem, Netherlands

Known for

Writing

Credits

6 titles

IMDb profile

Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch (1927–2010) was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into over thirty languages. Along with Willem Frederik Hermans and Gerard Reve, Mulisch is considered one of the "Great Three" (De Grote Drie) of Dutch postwar literature. His novel The Assault (1982) was adapted into a film that won both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. 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 in Italy. A fr…

Known for

5.1

Talk show hosted by Matthijs van Nieuwkerk containing a mixture of news, information, television bloopers and general entertainment.

De Wereld Draait Door

2005

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Wintertijd

1999

A truthful portrait of one of the Netherlands' most important public intellectuals of the postwar era: Renate Rubinstein.

Tamar: The Truths of Renate Rubinstein

2022

Joost Zwagerman - Voor Alles Bang Geweest poster

8.0

Colleagues and friends look back on the life of writer Joost Zwagerman.

Joost Zwagerman - Voor Alles Bang Geweest

2018

5.5

Eminent Dutch writer Harry Mulisch reflects on the past and the future—the beginning and the end—and revisits his birthplace, his parents, the house of his earliest memories, and the home where he wrote his first story. A film about death, dachshunds, a girl in a closet, stars, and the remarkable body of work that stands like a monument in his Amsterdam study.