Report: Dutch author Harry Mulisch dies of cancer

[November 01, 2010]  AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Harry Mulisch, who turned his experiences as the son of a Jewish mother and a Nazi collaborator into some of the Netherlands' most renowned works of fiction, has died.

The state broadcaster NOS says he was 83 and had cancer.

Mulisch was known outside Holland for "The Discovery of Heaven" and "The Assault," which was turned into a film that won the best foreign picture Oscar in 1986.

Many of his works portrayed people in wartime, reflecting his own teenage years during World War II. He famously remarked, "I didn't so much experience the war. I am the war."

[Associated Press]

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