1. Herman Rudolf "Rudy" Kousbroek was a Dutch poet, translator, writer and first of all essayist.
13 Facts About Rudy Kousbroek
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Rudy Kousbroek was a prominent figure in Dutch cultural life between 1950 and 2010 and one of the most outspoken atheists in the Netherlands.
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Rudy Kousbroek was born in Pematang Siantar, on the isle of Sumatra, in the Dutch East Indies.
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Rudy Kousbroek studied mathematics and physics in Amsterdam and Japanese in Paris.
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Rudy Kousbroek lived in France for many years but returned to the Netherlands in the early 1970s.
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Rudy Kousbroek became for some time the moving spirit of the Cultural Supplement of NRC Handelsblad.
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Rudy Kousbroek has written quite a lot about the visual arts and photography.
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Rudy Kousbroek advocated a more prominent role of the natural sciences in intellectual discourse and education.
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Rudy Kousbroek had three children, two with Ethel Portnoy and one with Sarah Hart.
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Rudy Kousbroek sometimes used the pen names Leopold de Buch or Fred Coyett.
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Rudy Kousbroek started his literary career with two books of poetry: Tien variaties op het bestiale and De begrafenis van een keerkring.
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Rudy Kousbroek soon decided that writing essays was his real metier.
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Rudy Kousbroek has translated Exercices de style by Raymond Queneau and wrote an introduction to the Dutch translation of Ombres chinoises by Simon Leys, a book that encouraged intellectuals in the Western world to revise their image of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution.