15 Facts About Harry Mulisch

Harry Mulisch wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections.

Harry Mulisch's work is popular among the country's public: a 2007 poll of NRC Handelsblad readers voted his novel The Discovery of Heaven the greatest Dutch book ever written.

Harry Mulisch was regularly mentioned as a possible future Nobel laureate.

Harry Mulisch won the 2007 International Nonino Prize in Italy.

Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch was born on 29 July 1927 in Haarlem in the Netherlands.

Harry Mulisch's father was from Austria-Hungary and emigrated to the Netherlands after the First World War.

Harry Mulisch was raised largely by his parents' housemaid, Frieda Falk.

Harry Mulisch said of himself, he did not just write about World War II, he was WWII.

Harry Mulisch lived in Amsterdam from 1958 until his death in 2010.

Harry Mulisch had two daughters, his daughters Frieda and Anna, with his wife Sjoerdje Woudenberg, and a son, Menzo, from his relationship with Kitty Saal.

Harry Mulisch's death occurred at his Amsterdam home and his family was with him at the time.

Harry Mulisch gained international recognition with the film The Assault, based on his book of the same title.

Harry Mulisch's father had worked for the Germans during the war and went to prison for three years afterwards.

Harry Mulisch was politically left-wing, once signing a book "dedicated in admiration" to Fidel Castro.

Harry Mulisch was honoured with a planetoid in his name on 12 October 2006.