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Dutch
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Fanny Lichtveld (1957-1964), Simone Sassen (2016)
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♌ Leo
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鸡 Rooster
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Cees Nooteboom: Dutch writer (born 1933).
Born in The Hague (died at age 92).
20 awards including ANV-Visser Neerlandia prize for drama.
AWARDS (20)
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ANV-Visser Neerlandia prize for drama
WON
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Anne Frank Prize
WON
B
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art First Class
WON
B
Austrian State Prize for European Literature
WON
Biography
Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel Rituals, which won the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English-language edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press of the United States. LSU Press published his two earlier novels in English in the following years, as well as other works up until 1990. Harcourt and Grove Press have since published some of his works in English.
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Cees Nooteboom was born in The Hague.
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