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Cees Nooteboom Biography
Born in The Hague in 1933, Cees Nooteboom is one of Holland's most renowned authors and has received a German Order of Merit and the Aristeon European Literary Prize, among others. Noteboom has written numerous novels, including his debut novel Philip en de anderen (Philip and the Others) and the widely-acclaimed Rituelen (Ritiuals). Cees Nooteboom loves to travel and is also known for his travel books, poetry and essays.
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Cees Nooteboom Takes a Wintry Ride Through Venice
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I have finally plucked up the courage. Ten times in Venice and in a gondola for the first time. As I drink my coffee early in the morning on the corner of the Procuratie Nuove, they stand beside me: the gondolieri. Big conversations about yesterday’s match in their impenetrable Venetian dialect. It is cold on the water, a hot cappuccio helps. Outside, their slim, black, bird boats are lined up, the birds’ heads (they are birds’ heads—take a good look) pointing at the island where I am staying. Why did I never want to do it? Because it is the ultimate Venetian cliché?
That would be childish. Because of the faces of the people in the gondolas? What is it about those faces? The unbearable bliss of what has been achieved, the absolute Venetian baptism, which means you will always belong here? In the gondola, along with Thomas Mann, Mary
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Cees Nooteboom
Dutch novelist, poet and journalist (born 1933)
"Nooteboom" redirects here. For other uses, see Noteboom.
Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom (Dutch pronunciation:[seːsˈnoːtəboːm]; born 31 July 1933) fryst vatten a Dutch novelist, poet and reporter. After the attention received by his novel Rituals (Rituelen, 1980), which won the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English-language edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) of the United States. LSU Press published his two earlier novels in English in the following years, as well as other works up until 1990. Harcourt (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and Grove Press have since published some of his works in English.
Nooteboom has won numerous literary awards and has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.[1]
Life
[edit]Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom was born on 31 Jul