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Cees Nooteboom ((:seːs noːtəboːm); born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, poet, and journalist. He has won numerous literary awards and has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. ==Life== Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom was born on 31 July 1933 in The Hague, Netherlands.〔 Dick Welsink, "(Cees Nooteboom: een leven in data )", ''Cees Nooteboom. Ik had wel duizend levens en ik nam er maar één!'' (1997). Retrieved on 2012-10-10.〕 His father was killed there in 1945 by a British air raid. After his mother remarried in 1948, his Catholic stepfather enrolled Nooteboom in several religious secondary schools, including a Franciscan school in Venray and a school run by the Augustinians in Eindhoven. He finished his secondary education at a night school in Utrecht.〔()〕 After his first job with a bank in Hilversum, Nooteboom traveled throughout Europe. In addition to his writing, he has worked for the weekly magazine, ''Elsevier,'' from 1957 to 1960, and at the newspaper ''de Volkskrant'' from 1961 to 1968. In 1967, he became the travel editor of the magazine ''Avenue''. In 1957 Nooteboom hired on as a sailor on a freighter to Surinam in order to earn money and ask for the hand of his first wife, Fanny Lichtveld. They divorced in 1964. Some of his experiences are recounted in the book ''De verliefde gevangene'' (1958). He was also in a relationship with the singer, Liesbeth List. Currently he is married to Simone Sassen and divides his time between Amsterdam and the island of Minorca. In addition to his many literature awards, Nooteboom was awarded honorary doctorates from Radboud University in Nijmegen in 2006 and the Free University of Berlin in 2008.〔(Invitation to Press Conference: Cees Nooteboom to Be Granted Honorary Doctorate from Freie Universität )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cees Nooteboom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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