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    Simon Vestdijk (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsimɔɱ ˈvɛzdɛik]; 17 October 1898 – 23 March 1971) was a Dutch writer. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature...
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    formerly of The Verve Simon Trpčeski (born 1979), Macedonian pianist Simon Vestdijk (1898–1971), Dutch novelist and poet Simon Vukčević (born 1986), Montenegrin...
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    Graham Greene, André Malraux, Alberto Moravia, Vladimir Nabokov and Simon Vestdijk. The highest number of nominations were for the Norwegian novelist and...
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    he was deposed in 1918. He died in Doorn in 1941. The Dutch novelist Simon Vestdijk lived in Doorn for a great part of his life (between 1939 and 1971,...
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  • The film was made for television, and is based on the 1951 novel by Simon Vestdijk. Stijn Westenend Cees Geel Gwen Eckhaus Roef Ragas Carice van Houten...
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    freight being carried until January 1938. The famous Dutch writer Simon Vestdijk was born in Harlingen and used to depict his hometown in his writings...
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  • ghost and the shadow") is a novel by Dutch author Simon Vestdijk. One of the later novels in Vestdijk's career, it was published in 1966 by Nijgh & Van...
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    writers Menno ter Braak, Willem Frederik Hermans, J. Slauerhoff, and Simon Vestdijk, Emmy award-winning producer Michael W. King, actor Jeff Wilbusch, and...
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    Zola, Marcel Proust, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, August Strindberg, Simon Vestdijk, Karel Čapek, the New World's Jorge Luis Borges, Ezra Pound, John Updike...
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    of Scorpio Films, Verstappen directed two films based on novels by Simon Vestdijk, Pastorale 1943 (1978) and Het verboden bacchanaal (1981). While the...
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  • Willem Elsschot and Marnix Gijsen and Dutch writers J. Slauerhoff, Simon Vestdijk and Jan Greshoff. The Second World War marked an abrupt change in the...
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  • Pieter Brueghel (1525–1569) (Painter) Frans Hals (1582–1666) (Painter) Simon Vestdijk (1898–1971) (Poet) Olivier van Noort (1558–1627) (Explorer) Hendrik...
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    Anton Wachter cycle (category Novels by Simon Vestdijk)
    by Dutch author Simon Vestdijk. The life of Wachter is captured in eight semi-autobiographical novels considered central to Vestdijk's oeuvre. The first...
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    19th century: Multatuli 20th century: Louis Couperus Martinus Nijhoff Simon Vestdijk Willem Frederik Hermans Gerard Reve Hella Haasse Harry Mulisch Jan Wolkers...
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    Vesaas (1897–1970)  Norway poetry, novel Sigmund Skard (1903–1995) 56 Simon Vestdijk (1898–1971)  Netherlands novel, poetry, essays, translation Sigfrid...
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    last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland (New York) Simon Vestdijk (1899–1971), novelist, musician, psychological analyst Wigerus Vitringa...
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    nominations. Twenty of the nominees were nominated first-time such as Simon Vestdijk, Graham Greene, Mika Waltari, Martin Buber, Robert Frost, Karl Jaspers...
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  • ("The waiter and the living") is a novel from 1949 by Dutch author Simon Vestdijk containing an allegory of the Last Judgment. The main characters in...
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  • Damman", 1934) is a novel by Dutch author Simon Vestdijk. First published in 1934, it is one of Vestdijk's most popular novels. It is the third installment...
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    immoralist (of André Gide) (translation) 1936 - Heden ik, morgen gij (with Simon Vestdijk) (novel) 1937 - Herman Gorter (essay) 1938 - Critisch proza 1938-1947...
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  • Ashiq Awan Asim Hussain Ghulam Hussain Frederik van Eeden J. Slauerhoff Simon Vestdijk Leo Vroman Liam Fox - former British Secretary of State for Defence...
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    org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination Archive - Simon Vestdijk". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination...
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    de la Roche, Hilda Doolittle, Frantz Fanon, Olga Forsh, Leonhard Frank, Simon Gantillon, Dashiell Hammett, Émile Henriot, George S. Kaufman, Maurice Merleau-Ponty...
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    prize. The Indian novelist Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay and Dutch writer Simon Vestdijk died months before the announcement. The Academy's archives later revealed...
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    Vesaas (1897–1970)  Norway poetry, novel Harald Beyer (1891–1960) 37 Simon Vestdijk (1898–1971)  Netherlands novel, poetry, essays, translation Benjamin...
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  • 1962: Stijn Streuvels 1965: J.C. Bloem 1968: Gerard Walschap 1971: Simon Vestdijk 1974: Marnix Gijsen 1977: Willem Frederik Hermans 1980: Maurice Gilliams...
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  • (d. 1998) 1898 – Eileen Sedgwick, American actress (d. 1991) 1898 – Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (d. 1971) 1900 – C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch...
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    Vesaas (1897–1970)  Norway poetry, novel Sigmund Skard (1903–1995) 48 Simon Vestdijk (1898–1971)  Netherlands novel, poetry, essays, translation The Belgian...
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    Mika Waltari, Tarjei Vesaas and Simon Vestdijk. Ten of the nominees were nominated first-time, among them Pierre-Henri Simon, Witold Gombrowicz, Arnold Wesker...
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  • social and literary treatises in addition to fiction, poetry, and plays Simon Vestdijk (1898–1971) a Dutch doctor, writer, poet and translator. Ernst Weiß...
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