Turkish Delight - Turks fruit
This autobiographical novel was first published in 1969. Jan Wolkers describes the passionate love of a sculptor for a young woman. This successful novel was made into a movie by Paul Verhoeven in 1972 starring Rutger Hauer and Monique van de Ven in the leading roles. The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for the best Foreign Language Film and won in 1999 the award for the Best Dutch Film of the Century.
Turkish Delight has been translated into Bulgarian, Croatian, English, Finnish, French, Frysian, German, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Polish, Portugese, Servian, Slovanian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
Author
Author, Sculptor and One of the 'Great Four' writers of Dutch literature.
In over forty years Jan Wolkers (1925-2007) wrote a great number of novels, stories and essays. He also worked as painter and a sculptor. The Auschwitz Monument in Wertheimpark in Amsterdam is one of his works.
With his novels and stories he liberated himself and his readers from religion and the stifling and oppressive atmosphere of post war Holland. Turks fruit (Turkish Delight), 1969, also represented the sexual revolution of the sixties. Among the Protestant community his work aroused much resistance, but his success was not to be stopped.
With works like Kort Amerikaans (Crew Cut), Turks fruit (Turkish Delight), Terug naar Oegstgeest(Return to Oegstgeest) and De walgvogel (The Dodo) Jan Wolkers belongs to the most widely translated Dutch authors.
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