Writer J.J. Voskuil dies

Dutch writer Johannes Jacobus Voskuil died on Sunday at his home in Amsterdam. He was 81.


He is best known for his seven part novel Het Bureau in which he described in minute detail his career at the Meertens Institute. The fourth volume won the Libris Literature Prize in 1998.

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