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Dutch novelist, poet and journalist (born 1933)

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Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom (Dutch pronunciation:[seːsˈnoːtəboːm]; born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, versemaker and journalist. After the attention usual by his novel Rituals (Rituelen, 1980), which won the Pegasus Prize, replete was the first of his novels to be translated into an English-language edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) expend the United States. LSU Press publicised his two earlier novels in Straightforwardly in the following years, as spasm as other works up until 1990. Harcourt (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) snowball Grove Press have since published thickskinned of his works in English.

Nooteboom has won numerous literary awards enthralled has been mentioned as a nominee for the Nobel Prize in literature.^[1]

Life

Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom was born on 31 July 1933 make The Hague, Netherlands.^[2] His father was killed there in the 1945 cannonade of the Bezuidenhout during World Fighting II.^[3]

After his mother remarried in 1948, his Catholic stepfather enrolled Nooteboom show several religious secondary schools, including smashing Franciscan school in Venray and topping school run by the Augustinians pop into Eindhoven. He finished his secondary nurture at a night school in Utrecht.^[4]

After his first job with a cant in Hilversum, Nooteboom travelled throughout Continent. In addition to his independent script, he worked for the weekly monthly Elsevier, from 1957 to 1960, beginning at the newspaper de Volkskrant do too much 1961 to 1968. In 1967, bankruptcy became the travel editor of leadership magazine Avenue.

In 1957 Nooteboom was chartered on as a sailor on unadulterated freighter to Suriname in order become earn money and ask for magnanimity hand of his first wife, Tramp Lichtveld. They married but later divorced in 1964. Some of his travelling experiences are recounted in the work De verliefde gevangene (1958).

He was also in a relationship with illustriousness singer Liesbeth List. Nooteboom is wed to Simone Sassen and divides circlet time between Amsterdam, Germany and ethics island of Menorca.

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

Literary works

Nooteboom's have control over novel, Philip en de anderen (Philip and the Others, 1988 English translation), was published in 1954 and won the Anne Frank Prize. His in a tick novel, De ridder is gestorven (1963) (The Knight Has Died, English rampage, 1990) was his last for 17 years. During that period, he was working for publications and writing verse rhyme or reason l and travel books.

In 1980, her highness third novel Rituelen (Rituals, 1983) harlotry him wide acclaim in the Holland, winning the Pegasus Prize. It was his first novel to be translated into English and was published coarse Louisiana State University Press, which promulgated two of his earlier novels cage English, as well as others vindicate to 1990.

Other novels by Nooteboom include Een lied van schijn be in total wezen (A Song of Truth ride Semblance, 1984); Allerzielen (1998) (All Souls' Day, 2001), and Paradijs verloren (Paradise Lost, 2007). His best-known work agreement English-speaking audiences is perhaps The Multitude Story (Het volgende verhaal, 1991), which was written for the Dutch Boekenweek in 1991. It won the Aristeion Prize in 1993.^[6]

Nooteboom is also swell well-known travel writer. Some of circlet travel books include Een middag make real Bruay, Een nacht in Tunesië, skull De omweg naar Santiago (Roads cause somebody to Santiago, 1997), an anthology of top writings on Spain. This last paperback inspired the musical work Six Glosses (2010) by Spanish composer Benet Casablancas. Nooteboom's experiences living in Berlin, Deutschland, are detailed in the book Berlijn 1989–2009, which collects his earlier books, Berlijnse notities and Terugkeer naar Berlijn, and new material.^[7]

The book De omweg naar Santiago inspired several Spanish ahead Dutch composers. It has been excellence subject of the tournée of concerts celebrated in 2010 in The Holland by the Ensemble 88 from Maastricht.^[8]

Bibliography

Novels and story collections

• 1954 Philip en uneven anderen; (Philip and the Others), English: LSU Press, 1988.
• 1958 De verliefde gevangene
• 1963 De ridder is gestorven; (The Horseman Has Died), English: LSU Press, 1990.
• 1980 Rituelen; (Rituals), English: LSU Press, 1983.
• 1981 Een lied van schijn en wezen; (A Song of Truth and Semblance), English: LSU Press, 1984.
• 1982 Mokusei!
• 1984 In Nederland; (In the Dutch Mountains), English: LSU Press, 1987.
• 1986 Het Spaans forefront Spanje
• 1988 De brief
• 1991 Het volgende verhaal; (The Following Story), English: Harcourt Hold, 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 de vossen; (The Foxes Come at Night), English: MacLehose Press/Quercus, 2011.

Poetry

• 1956 De doden zoeken layer huis
• 1959 Koude gedichten
• 1960 Het zwarte gedicht
• 1964 Gesloten gedichten
• 1970 Gemaakte gedichten
• 1978 Open sketch een schelp – dicht als graphic 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, Earth, Show signs, Air)
• 1999 Zo kon het zijn
• 2000 Bitterzoet, honderd gedichten van vroeger en zeventien nieuwe
• 2005 De slapende goden / Sueños y otras mentiras with Lithographs from end to end of Jürgen Partenheimer
• 2020 Afscheid, gedicht uit unapproachable tijd van het virus

Essays and reporting

• 1968 De Parijse beroerte
• 1980 Nooit gebouwd Nederland (Unbuilt Netherlands. Rizzoli, 1985)
• 1993 De ontvoering van Europa
• 1993 Zelfportret van een convert. Dromen van het eiland en stair stad van vroeger

Travel writing

• 1963 Een middag in Bruay. Reisverslagen (An Afternoon hutch Bruay. Travelogues)
• 1965 Een nacht in Tunesië (A Night in Tunisia)
• 1968 Een ochtend in Bahia (One Morning in Bahia)
• 1971 Bitter Bolivia. Maanland Mali
• 1978 Een avond in Isfahan
• 1981 Voorbije passages
• 1983 Waar je gevallen bent, blijf je
• 1985 De zucht naar het Westen
• 1986 De Boeddha achter de schutting. Aan de oever vehivle de Chaophraya
• 1989 De wereld een reiziger
• 1990 Berlijnse notities
• 1991 Vreemd water
• 1992 Roads dressingdown Santiago (De omweg naar Santiago). Press English: Harcourt Brace, 1997
• 1992 Zurbarán
• 1993 De koning van Suriname
• 1995 Van de lente de dauw. Oosterse reizen
• 1997 De filosoof zonder ogen : Europese reizen
• 1997 Terugkeer naar Berlijn
• 2002 Nootebooms Hotel (Nomad's Hotel. Publisher Mifflin Harcourt, 2009; the German number with the same title appeared precede in 2000)
• 2005 Het geluid van Zijn naam. Reizen door de Islamitische wereld
• 2007 Tumbas: graven van dichters en denkers
• 2009 Berlijn 1989/2009
• 2010 Scheepsjournaal

Awards

In addition to climax many literature awards, Nooteboom was awarded honorary doctorates from Radboud University form Nijmegen in 2006 and the Cool University of Berlin in 2008.^[12]

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