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==Works== Mulisch gained international recognition with the film ''[[The Assault (1986 film)|The Assault]]'' (1986), based on his book ''[[The Assault|of the same title]]'' (1982). It received an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] and a [[Golden Globe]] for best foreign movie and has been translated into more than twenty languages. 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.<ref name=nytobit>[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/books/01mulisch.html "Harry Mulisch, Dutch Novelist, Dies at 83"], ''The New York Times'', 31 October 2010.</ref> "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.<ref name=nytobit/> It was filmed in 2001 as ''[[The Discovery of Heaven]]'' by [[Jeroen Krabbé]], starring [[Stephen Fry]]. Among the many awards he received for individual works and his total body of work, the most important is the [[Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren]] (''Prize of Dutch Literature'', a lifetime achievement award) in 1995.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11661975 "Writer Harry Mulisch dies at 83"], BBC News.</ref>
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