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Leon de Winter

Place de la Bastille

Published by Diogenes as Place de la Bastille

Original Title: La Place de la Bastille

Paul de Wit has one obsession: He wants to correct history. And the history of his own family in particular. He thinks he has found his twin brother, who had been presumed dead, on the Place de la Bastille, of all places. This kindles in him the insane hope that he can reconcile himself with his own history after all.

Contemporary Literature
160 pages
2005

978-3-257-06496-4

Leon

de Winter

Leon de Winter was born in 's-Hertogenbosch in 1954, the son of Dutch Jews. He has worked as a freelance writer and filmmaker since 1976, and lives in the Netherlands. In 2002, he was awarded the ›Welt Literature Prize‹; in 2006, the ›Buber-Rosenzweig Medal‹ for his fight against Antisemitism; and in 2009, the ›Brabant Literature Prize‹ for The Right of Return.

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Photo of Leon de Winter, © Paul Tolenaar