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Cees Nooteboom


(Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom)
Netherlands (b.1933)

Dutch novelist, poet, travel-writer, and essayist. Cees Nooteboom has been frequently mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. Central themes in his work are death, the mystery of the self, and the relationship between reality and imagination. A large part of Nooteboom's books consist of travel literature, but he considers himself foremost a poet.
 

Awards: Pegasus (1983)  see all
 
Novels
   Rituals (1983)
   A Song of Truth and Semblance (1984)
   In the Dutch Mountains (1987)
   Philip and the Others (1988)
   The Knight Has Died (1990)
   The Following Story (1994)
   All Souls' Day (2001)
   Lost Paradise (2007)
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Collections
   The Foxes Come At Night (2011)
   Self-Portrait of an Other (poems) (2012) (with Max Neumann)
   Light Everywhere (poems) (2014)
   Leaving (poems) (2021)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Mokusei (2017)
   Monk's Eye (2019)
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Non fiction show
 
Awards
1983 Pegasus Prize for Literature : Rituals

Award nominations
1996 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : The Following Story


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