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- Born
- 1923
- Died
- 2006
- Works
- 70
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- Archief Reve
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Gerard Kornelis van het Reve (1923 – 2006) was a Dutch writer. He started writing as Simon van het Reve and later adopted the shorter Gerard Reve. Together with Willem Frederik Hermans and Harry Mulisch, he is considered one of the "Great Three" (De Grote Drie) of Dutch post-war literature. Reve was one of the first homosexual authors to come out in the Netherlands. The humorous and recognisable…
Known for
- The Great Gerard Reve Show — Himself1974
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Netherlands
- Active from
- 1923
- Active to
- 2006
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Gerard Reve (full name: Gerard Kornelis van het Reve, born 1923 - died 2006) was one of the greatest Dutch writers of the 20th century. He was born into a communist family but later in life entered the Catholic church and became a devout worshiper of the Virgin Mary, to the disbelief and ridicule of colleagues and readers alike. He is universally known for his stately Dutch prose, his concept of 'tragic irony', the theme of homosexuality, his provocative political remarks, and his very peculiar
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5 total works indexed
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- 2015 American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Adult Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: The American Thyroid Association Guidelines Task Force on Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
· 2016 · cited 12,599x
- AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models
· 2021 · cited 7,873x
- Absorptive Capacity: A Review, Reconceptualization, and Extension
· 2002 · cited 7,377x
- Term-weighting approaches in automatic text retrieval
· 1988 · cited 6,185x
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Key facts
- Born
- Gerard Kornelis van het Reve , 14 December 1923, Amsterdam , Netherlands
- Died
- 8 April 2006 (aged 82), Zulte , East Flanders , Belgium
- Resting place
- Sint-Michiel-en-Cornelius-en-Ghislenuskerk, Machelen
- Pen name
- Simon van het Reve
- Occupation
- Writer
- Language
- Dutch
- Nationality
- Dutch
- Alma mater
- Vossius Gymnasium , Grafische School
- Genre
- Novels, short stories , poems, letters , speeches
- Years active
- 1947–1998
- Notable awards
- Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren
- Spouse
- Hanny Michaelis (m. 1948 – sep. 1959)
- Partner
- Joop Schafthuizen
- Relatives
- Karel van het Reve (brother)
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Encyclopedic overview
Gerard Kornelis van het Reve (14 December 1923 – 8 April 2006) was a Dutch writer. He started writing as Simon Gerard van het Reve and adopted the shorter Gerard Reve ( Dutch: [ˈɣeːrɑrt ˈreːvə]) in 1973. Together with Willem Frederik Hermans and Harry Mulisch, he is considered one of the "Great Three" (De Grote Drie) of Dutch post-war literature. His 1981 novel De vierde man (The Fourth Man) was the basis for Paul Verhoeven's 1983 film.
Reve was one of the first homosexual authors to come out in the Netherlands. He often wrote explicitly about erotic attraction, sexual relations and intercourse between men, which many readers considered shocking. However, he did this in an ironic, humorous and recognizable way, which contributed to making homosexuality acceptable for many of his readers. Another main theme, often in combination with eroticism, was religion. Reve himself declared that the primary message in all of his work was salvation from the material world we live in.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gerard Reve” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.