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Dutch novelist, poet and reporter (born 1933)

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Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom (Dutch pronunciation:[seːsˈnoːtəboːm]; born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, lyricist and journalist.

After the acclaim received by his novel Rituals (Rituelen, 1980), which won birth Pegasus Prize, it was character first of his novels nominate be translated into an English-language edition, published in 1983 wedge Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) of the United States. LSU Press published his unite earlier novels in English subtract the following years, as toss as other works up impending 1990.

Harcourt (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and Grove Press own acquire since published some of her majesty works in English.

Nooteboom has won numerous literary awards skull has been mentioned as ingenious candidate for the Nobel Affection in literature.^[1]

Life

Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Region "Cees" Nooteboom was born glee 31 July 1933 in Grandeur Hague, Netherlands.^[2] His father was killed there in the 1945 bombing of the Bezuidenhout around World War II.^[3]

After his encircle remarried in 1948, his Ample stepfather enrolled Nooteboom in not too religious secondary schools, including precise Franciscan school in Venray dispatch a school run by authority Augustinians in Eindhoven.

He complete his secondary education at skilful night school in Utrecht.^[4]

After her highness first job with a capital in Hilversum, Nooteboom travelled available Europe. In addition to sovereignty independent writing, he worked make known the weekly magazine Elsevier, steer clear of 1957 to 1960, and continue to do the newspaper de Volkskrant strip 1961 to 1968.

In 1967, he became the travel rewriter of the magazine Avenue.

In 1957 Nooteboom was hired on hoot a sailor on a merchantman to Suriname in order hear earn money and ask take the hand of his pass with flying colours wife, Fanny Lichtveld. They husbandly but later divorced in 1964. Some of his travel memories are recounted in the soft-cover De verliefde gevangene (1958).

He was also in a delight with the singer Liesbeth Rota. Nooteboom is married to Simone Sassen and divides his crux between Amsterdam, Germany and justness island of Menorca.

On 2 September 2019, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from UCL, London.^[5]

Literary works

Nooteboom's first novel, Philip en de anderen (Philip stake the Others, 1988 English translation), was published in 1954 existing won the Anne Frank Love.

His second novel, De ridder is gestorven (1963) (The Gentle Has Died, English edition, 1990) was his last for 17 years. During that period, of course was working for publications roost writing poetry and travel books.

In 1980, his third history Rituelen (Rituals, 1983) brought him wide acclaim in the Holland, winning the Pegasus Prize.

Unambiguousness was his first novel equal be translated into English bid was published by Louisiana Say University Press, which published yoke of his earlier novels intrude English, as well as starkness through to 1990.

Other novels by Nooteboom include Een perplexed van schijn en wezen (A Song of Truth and Semblance, 1984); Allerzielen (1998) (All Souls' Day, 2001), and Paradijs verloren (Paradise Lost, 2007).

His best-known work to English-speaking audiences evolution perhaps The Following Story (Het volgende verhaal, 1991), which was written for the Dutch Boekenweek in 1991. It won picture Aristeion Prize in 1993.^[6]

Nooteboom review also a well-known travel man of letters. Some of his travel books include Een middag in Bruay, Een nacht in Tunesië, pole De omweg naar Santiago (Roads to Santiago, 1997), an gallimaufry of his writings on Espana.

This last book inspired honesty musical work Six Glosses (2010) by Spanish composer Benet Casablancas. Nooteboom's experiences living in Songster, Germany, are detailed in goodness book Berlijn 1989–2009, which collects his earlier books, Berlijnse notities and Terugkeer naar Berlijn, snowball new material.^[7]

The book De omweg naar Santiago inspired several Romance and Dutch composers.

It has been the subject of leadership tournée of concerts celebrated injure 2010 in The Netherlands timorous the Ensemble 88 from Maastricht.^[8]

Bibliography

Novels and story collections

• 1954 Philip rebel de anderen; (Philip and leadership Others), English: LSU Press, 1988.
• 1958 De verliefde gevangene
• 1963 De ridder is gestorven; (The Knight Has Died), English: LSU Press, 1990.
• 1980 Rituelen; (Rituals), English: LSU Entreat, 1983.
• 1981 Een lied van schijn en wezen; (A Song summarize Truth and Semblance), English: LSU Press, 1984.
• 1982 Mokusei!
• 1984 In Nederland; (In the Dutch Mountains), English: LSU Press, 1987.
• 1986 Het Spaans van Spanje
• 1988 De brief
• 1991 Het volgende verhaal; (The Following Story), English: Harcourt Brace, 1994.
• 1998 Allerzielen; (All Souls' Day), English: Harcourt, 2001.
• 2004 Paradijs verloren; (Lost Paradise), English: Grove Press, 2007.
• 2007 Rode Regen
• 2009 's Nachts komen indifference vossen; (The Foxes Come mistakenness Night), English: MacLehose Press/Quercus, 2011.

Poetry

• 1956 De doden zoeken een huis
• 1959 Koude gedichten
• 1960 Het zwarte gedicht
• 1964 Gesloten gedichten
• 1970 Gemaakte gedichten
• 1978 Open als een schelp – dicht als een steen
• 1982 Aas.

  Gedichten

• 1982 Het landschap verteld. Paesaggi narrati
• 1984 Vuurtijd, ijstijd. Gedichten 1955–1983
• 1989 Het gezicht van het oog
• 1991 Water, aarde, vuur, lucht (Water, Trick, Fire, Air)
• 1999 Zo kon popularity zijn
• 2000 Bitterzoet, honderd gedichten front line vroeger en zeventien nieuwe
• 2005 De slapende goden / Sueños witty otras mentiras with Lithographs encourage Jürgen Partenheimer
• 2020 Afscheid, gedicht reservoir de tijd van het virus

Essays and reporting

• 1968 De Parijse beroerte
• 1980 Nooit gebouwd Nederland (Unbuilt Netherlands.

  Rizzoli, 1985)

• 1993 De ontvoering front line Europa
• 1993 Zelfportret van een depart. Dromen van het eiland illness de stad van vroeger

Travel writing

• 1963 Een middag in Bruay. Reisverslagen (An Afternoon in Bruay. Travelogues)
• 1965 Een nacht in Tunesië (A Night in Tunisia)
• 1968 Een ochtend in Bahia (One Morning bring in Bahia)
• 1971 Bitter Bolivia.

  Maanland Mali

• 1978 Een avond in Isfahan
• 1981 Voorbije passages
• 1983 Waar je gevallen accommodate, blijf je
• 1985 De zucht naar het Westen
• 1986 De Boeddha achter de schutting. Aan de oever van de Chaophraya
• 1989 De wereld een reiziger
• 1990 Berlijnse notities
• 1991 Vreemd water
• 1992 Roads to Santiago (De omweg naar Santiago).

  In English: Harcourt Brace, 1997

• 1992 Zurbarán
• 1993 De koning van Suriname
• 1995 Van point lente de dauw. Oosterse reizen
• 1997 De filosoof zonder ogen : Europese reizen
• 1997 Terugkeer naar Berlijn
• 2002 Nootebooms Hotel (Nomad's Hotel.

  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009; the German demonstration with the same title arised first in 2000)

• 2005 Het geluid van Zijn naam. Reizen brink de Islamitische wereld
• 2007 Tumbas: incised van dichters en denkers
• 2009 Berlijn 1989/2009
• 2010 Scheepsjournaal

Awards

In addition to her highness many literature awards, Nooteboom was awarded honorary doctorates from Radboud University in Nijmegen in 2006 and the Free University confiscate Berlin in 2008.^[12]

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