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Events on Thursday 27 April 1995 2
1921 – 1995W.F. HermansNovelist, essayist, geographer, 1921-1995Willem Frederik Hermans (1921-1995) — one of the three great Dutch postwar writers, alongside Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve. Novelist, essayist, geographer and polemicist. Author of The Darkroom of Damocles (1958), Beyond Sleep (1966) and An Untouched House (1952). His work is defined by epistemological nihilism: the conviction that certainty is impossible and that human existence is fundamentally without meaning or redemption.
1995W.F. Hermans dies in Utrecht aged 73Willem Frederik Hermans dies on 27 April 1995 in Utrecht, aged 73. He leaves behind a body of work — novels, stories, essays, plays, scientific writing, literary criticism — of extraordinary range and consistency, unified by a philosophical pessimism that never became despair and a formal intelligence that never became mere cleverness.