Editing Harry Mulisch (section)

==Life==
[[File:Harry Mulisch en Sjoerdje Woudenberg (1971).jpg|thumb|upright|Harry Mulisch and Sjoerdje Woudenberg on their wedding day in 1971]]
[[File:Harry Mulisch 2010.JPG|thumb|Mulisch in 2010]]

Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch was born on 29 July 1927 in [[Haarlem]] in the Netherlands. Mulisch's father was from [[Austria-Hungary]] and emigrated to the Netherlands after the First World War.<ref name=nytobit/> During the German occupation in [[World War II]] his father worked for a German bank which also dealt with confiscated Jewish assets.<ref name=nytobit/> His mother, Alice Schwarz, was [[Jews|Jewish]]. Mulisch and his mother escaped transportation to a [[concentration camp]] thanks to Mulisch's father's collaboration with the [[Nazis]], but his maternal grandmother was killed in a gas chamber.<ref name=nytobit/> Mulisch was raised largely by his parents' housemaid, Frieda Falk.<ref name=nytobit/> Mulisch said of himself, he did not just write about World War II, he was WWII.<ref name=nytobit/><ref>[http://www.radionetherlandsarchives.org/vip-lounge-harry-mulisch/ "VIP Lounge – Harry Mulisch", Radio Netherlands Archives, October 26, 1987]</ref>

Mulisch lived in [[Amsterdam]] from 1958 until his death in 2010.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/books/01mulisch.html | work=The New York Times | first=Marlise | last=Simons | title=Harry Mulisch, Dutch Novelist, Dies at 83 | date=31 October 2010}}</ref>

Mulisch had two daughters, his daughters Frieda and Anna, with his wife Sjoerdje Woudenberg, and a son, Menzo, from his relationship with Kitty Saal.<ref>{{cite web | author=Dan van der Dat | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/nov/07/harry-mulisch-obituary | title=Harry Mulisch obituary | work=The Guardian | date=2010-11-07 | access-date=2014-10-26}}</ref>

===Death===
[[File:Graf Harry Mulisch.jpg|thumb|upright|Harry Mulisch' grave at [[Zorgvlied (cemetery)|Zorgvlied]] in 2011]]

Mulisch died in 2010. His death occurred at his Amsterdam home and his family was with him at the time.<ref name=nytobit/><ref name="AFP"/> Dutch prime minister [[Mark Rutte]] described his death as "a loss for Dutch literature and the Netherlands".<ref name="Gulf Daily News">{{cite news|url=http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=290610|title=Leading Dutch writer Mulisch dies|date=1 November 2010|work=[[Gulf Daily News]]|access-date=1 November 2010|archive-date=9 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609111504/http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=290610|url-status=dead}}</ref> Culture minister [[Halbe Zijlstra]] bemoaned the demise of the "Big Three" as [[Gerard Reve]] and [[Willem Frederik Hermans]] had already died.<ref name="Gulf Daily News"/> 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".<ref name=nytobit/> ''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".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/11/02/harry-mulisch-hollands-greatest-author-died-this-weekend|title=Harry Mulisch, Holland's Greatest Author, Died This Weekend|date=2 November 2010|work=The L Magazine|access-date=2 November 2010|archive-date=6 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406060124/http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/11/02/harry-mulisch-hollands-greatest-author-died-this-weekend|url-status=dead}}</ref>