![]() "It is the book that shaped our generation it made us love, even obsess, with reading", said Peter-Paul Spanjaard, 32, a lawyer in Amsterdam at the time of Mulisch's death. His novel The Discovery of Heaven (1992) is considered his masterpiece, and was voted "the best Dutch-language book ever" by Dutch readers in a 2007 newspaper poll. It received an Oscar and a Golden Globe for best foreign movie and has been translated into more than twenty languages. Mulisch gained international recognition with the film The Assault (1986), based on his book of the same title (1982). ![]() The L Magazine 's Mark Ashe quoted the American editions of his novels by referring to him as "Holland's Greatest Author" and "Holland's most important postwar writer". Marlise Simons of The New York Times said his "gift for writing with clarity about moral and philosophical themes made him an enormously influential figure in the Netherlands and earned him recognition abroad". Culture minister Halbe Zijlstra bemoaned the demise of the "Big Three" as Gerard Reve and Willem Frederik Hermans had already died. ![]() Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte described his death as "a loss for Dutch literature and the Netherlands". ![]() ![]() His death occurred at his Amsterdam home and his family was with him at the time. Harry Mulisch' grave at Zorgvlied in 2011 ![]()
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