Jan Wolkers, Dutch novelist, poet and sculptor dies at 81

Dutch novelist, poet and sculptor Jan Wolkers — whose sex-charged books helped shake off the shackles of postwar conservatism in the Netherlands — died on Friday at his home on the North Sea island of Texel, his publisher said.


http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/19/arts/EU-A-E-BKS-Netherlands-Obit-Wolkers.php

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