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Author Description Bernlef (previously J. Bernlef) is the pseudonym of Dutch writer, poet, and translator Hendrik Jan Marsman. He occasionally used the nom de plume: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7113743.Henk_Bernlef" title="Henk Bernlef" rel="nofollow noopener">Henk Bernlef</a>.<br /><br />Between 1959 and 2012 Bernlef wrote a large number of novels, stories and poems. Amongst others he received the Constantijn Huygens prijs (1984), the AKO Literatuurprijs (1987) and the PC Hooftprijs (1994). His work is characterized by a sober language and an unflagging fascination with the workings of the human memory. His most famous novel is <i>Hersenschimmen</i> (1984) and describes the process of dementia from the point of view of the sufferer, Maarten Klein. (Source: de Volkskrant 29/10/2012)

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