Books by W.F. Hermans

Willem Frederik Hermans was born in Amsterdam in 1921 and studied physical geography before becoming a lecturer at Groningen University. Disaffected with academia and his native country, he took up residence in Paris in 1973. A champion of unadorned style, he is the author of numerous novels, essays, plays and poems, and is considered one of the greatest post-war European writers. His war novel The Dark Room of Damocles will be published by Harvill Secker in 2007. He died in 1995.