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Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom (b. 1933) has built up an imposing oeuvre of novels, poetry, short stories and travel stories. His novel Rituelen (Rituals, 1980) won both the Bordewijk Prize and the Pegasus Prize for Literature. Berlijnse notities (Berlin Notes, 1990) won the German 3rd of October Literature Prize, and Nooteboom was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize for his oeuvre. In 1993 he won the Aristeion European
Prize for Literature for Het volgende verhaal (The Following Story, 1991), the novel that signalled his international breakthrough, with translations in over twenty languages. In 2004 Nooteboom published Paradijs verloren, his first novel since Allerzielen (All Souls' Day, 1998). In comparison it is a more compact, lighter novel in keeping with his earlier work, such as his debut Philip en de anderen (Philip and the Others, 1955) and Rituals (1980). In 2004 the 71-year-old writer received the highest literary award of the Netherlands, the P.C. Hooft Award. The jury's report stated that with regard to its
power of expression, scope and originality, Cees Nooteboom's prose is of the best produced in the Netherlands in the last fifty years.
Titles in Portuguese: A história seguinte, Quetzal 1993; Máscara de Neve, Quetzal 1995; Rituais, Asa 2000; O (des)caminho para Santiago, Asa 2003.

Gerrit Komrij
Was born in 1944 in Winterswijk, near the Dutch-German border. Since 1984 he is living and working in Portugal. His vast bibliography includes poetry, novels, essays, polemics, theatre and anthologies. In 1999 he was made a honorary doctor by the University of Leiden and in 2000 he became the first Poet Laureate of the Netherlands. Two of his novels were translated into Portuguese: Atrás dos Montes and Um Almoço de Negócios em Sintra (both by Asa). In 1996 Assírio & Alvim published his anthology of Dutch modern poetry Uma Migalha na Saia do Universo. Web pages:
http://www.kb.nl/kb/dichters/komrij/komrij-00.html
http://www.epibreren.com/rs/komrijuk.html

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