Simon Vestdijk

Simon Vestdijk was born in Harlingen, in Friesland, on 17 October 1898, the son of a gymnastics teacher. After middle school in Harlingen and Leeuwarden, he studied medicine in Amsterdam from 1917 to 1927, worked as a locum, made a voyage as a ship's doctor, then devoted himself to literature from 1932. A friend of Du Perron and Ter Braak, he joined the editorial staff of Forum in 1934. A hostage of the occupier at Sint-Michielsgestel from May 1942, the author of about two hundred books, winner of the Hooft Prize in 1950, he died in Utrecht on 23 March 1971.

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• NovelTerug tot Ina DammanSimon Vestdijk · 1934not translated into EnglishLiterature