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Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (The Assault, The Discovery of Heaven), died from cancer he was , 83

Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch  was a Dutch author. He wrote more than 30 novels, plays, essays, poems and philosophical reflections.[1] These have been translated into at more than 20 languages died from cancer he was , 83.[2]
Along with W.F. Hermans and Gerard Reve, Mulisch is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch postwar literature. His novel The Assault became a 1986 film which won both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.[3] A 2007 poll revealed his 1992 novel The Discovery of Heaven as the "Best Dutch Book Ever".[4] He was regularly thought of as a possible future Nobel laureate.[4]
Mulisch was associated with accessories such as his spectacles and pipe.[4]

(July 29, 1927 – October 30, 2010[1]) 

Life

Mulisch was born in Haarlem and lived in Amsterdam from 1958, following the death of his father in 1957, until the end of his own life. Mulisch's father was from Austria-Hungary and emigrated to the Netherlands after the First World War.[1] During the German occupation in World War II his father worked for a German bank, which also dealt with confiscated Jewish assets.[1] His mother, Alice Schwarz, was Jewish. Mulisch and his mother escaped transportation to a concentration camp thanks to Mulisch's father's collaboration with the Nazis, however his maternal grandmother died in a gas chamber.[1] Mulisch was mostly raised by his parents' housemaid, Frieda Falk.[1] Mulisch said of himself, he did not just write about World War II, he was WWII.[1]

Death

Mulisch died in 2010. His death occurred at his Amsterdam home and his family were with him at the time.[2] His publisher released a statement confirming the news.[1] Not long before his death Mulisch had made television appearances and was well dressed when dealing with visitors.[1] Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte described this as "a loss for Dutch literature and the Netherlands".[4]
Culture minister Halbe Zijlstra bemoaned the demise of the "Big Three" as Gerard Reve and Willem Frederik Hermans had already died.[4] Marlise Simons of The New York Times said his "gift for writing with clarity about moral and philosophical themes made him an enormously influential figure in the Netherlands and earned him recognition abroad".[1] The L Magazine's Mark Ashe quoted the American editions of his novels by referring to him as "Holland's Greatest Author" and "Holland's most important postwar writer".[5]

[edit] Works

Mulisch gained international recognition with the film The Assault (1986), which was based on his book The Assault (1982). It received an Oscar and a Golden Globe for best foreign movie and has been translated into more than twenty languages.
His novel The Discovery of Heaven (1992) is considered his masterpiece, it was voted “the best Dutch-language book ever” by Dutch readers in a 2007 newspaper poll.[1] “It is the book that shaped our generation; it made us love, even obsess, with reading,” said Peter-Paul Spanjaard, 32, a lawyer in Amsterdam at the time of Mulisch's death.[1] It was filmed in 2001 as The Discovery of Heaven by Jeroen Krabbé, starring Stephen Fry.
Among the many awards he received for individual works and his total body of work, the most important is the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren (Prize of Dutch Literature, a lifetime achievement award) in 1995.[6]

[edit] Themes in his work

A frequent theme in his work is the Second World War. His father had worked for the Germans during the war and went to prison for three years afterwards. As the war spanned most of Mulisch's formative phase, it had a defining influence on his life and work. In 1963, he wrote a non-fiction work about the Eichmann case: Criminal Case 40/61. Major works set against the backdrop of the Second World War are De Aanslag (The Assault), Het stenen bruidsbed, and Siegfried, the latter an attempt to examine why so many Germans responded to Hitler's charisma[7]
Mulisch often incorporated ancient legends or myths in his writings, drawing on Greek mythology (e.g. in De Elementen), Jewish mysticism (in De ontdekking van de Hemel and De Procedure), well known urban legends and politics (Mulisch was politically left-wing, once signing a book "dedicated in admiration" to Fidel Castro).[2] Mulisch's works are widely read.
In 1984 he delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, The Netherlands, under the title: Het Ene (the unifying principle).[citation needed]

[edit] Bibliography

  • Archibald Strohalm (1952; novel)
  • Tussen hamer en aambeeld ("Between hammer and anvil", 1952; novella)
  • Chantage op het leven ("Blackmail on life", 1953; short story)
  • De Diamant ("The Diamond", 1954; novel)
  • De Sprong der Paarden en de Zoete Zee ("The Jump of Horses and the Sweet Sea", 1955; novel)
  • Het mirakel ("The miracle", 1955; short stories)
  • Het Zwarte licht ("The Black Light", 1957; novel)
  • Manifesten ("Manifestos", 1958; essays)
  • Het Stenen Bruidsbed ("The Stone Bridal Bed", 1959; novel)
  • Tanchelijn (1960; play)
  • De knop ("The button", 1961; play)
  • Voer voor Psychologen ("Food for psychologists", 1961; autobiography)
  • Wenken voor de bescherming van uw gezin en uzelf, tijdens de Jongste Dag ("Tips for the Protection of Your Family and Yourself During the Last Judgment"), 1961; essays)
  • De Zaak 40/61 ("Criminal Case 40/61", 1963; report on the Eichmann trial)
  • Bericht aan de Rattenkoning ("Message to the Rat King", 1966; essay on the Provos revolts in Amsterdam in the 1960s)
  • Wenken voor de Jongste Dag ("Tips for the Last Judgment", 1967; essays)
  • Het woord bij de daad ("The word added to the deed", 1968; essays)
  • Reconstructie ("Reconstruction", 1969; essays)
  • Paralipomena Orphica ("Paralipomena Orphica", 1970; essays)
  • De Verteller ("The Narrator", 1970; novel)
  • De Verteller verteld: Kommentaar, Katalogus, Kuriosa en een Katastrofestuk ("The Narrator being narrated: Comments, Catalogue, Curiosities and a Piece of Catastrophe, 1971; essay on The Narrator)
  • De toekomst van gisteren ("Yesterday's future", 1972; essay on a book the author cannot write)
  • Oidipous Oidipous (1972; play)
  • Woorden, woorden, woorden ("Words, words, words", 1973; poetry)
  • De vogels ("The Birds", 1974; poetry)
  • Mijn Getijdenboek ("My book of hours") (1975; autobiography)
  • Tegenlicht (1975; poetry)
  • Kind en Kraai (1975; poetry)
  • Twee Vrouwen ("Two Women", 1975; novel) (filmed as Twice a woman)
  • Oude Lucht (1977; stories)
  • Opus Gran (1982; poetry)
  • De Aanslag (The Assault, 1982; novel); see above.
  • De Kamer (1984; stories)
  • Hoogste Tijd ("Last Call", 1985; novel);
  • De Pupil ("The Pupil", 1987; novel)
  • De Elementen ("The Elements", 1988; novel)
  • De Ontdekking van de Hemel (The Discovery of Heaven, 1992; novel); see above.
  • De Procedure ("The Procedure", 1999; novel)
  • Het Theater, de brief en de waarheid ("The Theatre, the Letter and the Truth", 2000; novel); "Boekenweekgeschenk".
  • Siegfried (2001; novel)

[edit] Honours and awards

[edit] Honours

[edit] Awards

  • 1951: Reina Prinsen Geerligs Award, for the novel "archibald strohalm"
  • 1957: De Bijenkorf Literary Award, for the novel "The Black Light"
  • 1957: Anne Frank Award, for novel "archibald strohalm"
  • 1961: Athos Prize, for lifetime achievement
  • 1961: ANV-Visser Neerlandia Prize, for the play "Tanchelijn"
  • 1963: Vijverberg Prize, for the report "Criminal Case 40/61"
  • 1977: Constantijn Huygens Prize, for lifetime achievement
  • 1977: Cestoda Prize
  • 1977: P. C. Hooft Award, for lifetime achievement
  • 1986: Deep Sea Award, for the novel "The Assault"
  • 1993: Multatuli Prize, for the novel "The Discovery of Heaven"
  • 1993: Mecca Award, for the novel "The Discovery of Heaven"
  • 1995: Dutch Literature Prize, for his whole oeuvre
  • 1999: Libris Literature Prize, for the novel "The procedure"
  • 1999: Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne, French prize for the novel "The Discovery of Heaven"
  • 2003: Inktaap prize, for the novel "Siegfried"
  • 2003: Premio Flaiano, Italian prize for literature
  • 2007: Prix européen des jeunes lecteurs, French prize for the novel "Siegfried"
  • 2007: Honorary Doctorate from the University of Amsterdam
  • 2007: Premio Nonino, Italian prize for literature
  • 2007: Prize for best Dutch novel of all time, for the novel "The Discovery of Heaven"
  • 2009: Golden Century Award, for his entire oeuvre

[edit] Planetoid

Mulisch was honored with a planetoid in his name on 12 October 2006 (see 10251 Mulisch)
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Nachi Nozawa, Japanese voice actor, died from lung cancer he was , 72

Nachi+Nozawa%252CNachi Nozawa (野沢 那智 Nozawa Nachi?)  was a Japanese seiyū, actor, and theatre director from Tokyo. He was affiliated with Office PAC at the time of his death. His real name was Yasutomo Nozawa (野沢 那智 Nozawa Yasutomo?). Nozawa was best known for dubbing over Bruce Willis and Alain Delon, as well as his roles in Space Adventure Cobra (as Cobra), Dororo (as Hyakkimaru), Gokū no Daibōken (as Sanzo), and the Sakura Wars series (as Kazuma Shinguji/Oni-Oh) Nozawa died at a Tokyo hospital of lung cancer.[1] He was 72 years old at the time of his death.

(January 13, 1938 - October 30, 2010[1])

 He has been a prolific anime voice actor, and has also directed theater. Nozawa was affiliated with Office PAC.
voice of bruce willis

 Nachi+Nozawa1Nozawa’s earliest anime voice acting credits come from 1963, when he provided voices for Astro Boy and Ookami Shonen Ken. In the 1960’s, he also provided voices for Goku no Daiboken, Kyojin no Hoshi, Dororo, and Under Sea Marine Boy. In the 1970’s, Nozawa provided voice for Osamu Tezuka’s Cleopatra film, Gatchaman, Animation Kikou Marco Polo no Boken, The Rose of Versailles, and the film Undersea Super Train: Marine Express.
Nozawa was very busy providing anime voices during the 1980’s. He contributed his talents to Be Forever Yamato (a Space Battleship Yamato film), Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned, Tsurikichi Sampei, the film Bremen 4: Angels in Hell, Dr. Slump, Queen Millennia, Queen Millennia Movie, Andromeda Stories, Space Adventure Cobra (as the main character, Cobra), Galactic Patrol Lensman, Glass no Kamen, the film Lensman, Wata no Kuni Hoshi, the film Ai City, Tobira o Akete, Dragon Ball Movie 2: Sleeping Princess in Devil’s Castle, the film Murasaki Shikibu Genji Monogatari, Ace wo Nerae! 2, Ace wo Nerae! Final Stage, Bride of Deimos, Kasei Yakyoku, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, and Lupin III: Secret Files.

While Nozawa could still be heard in anime in the 1990’s, the overall amount of anime voice work he did in that decade is noticeably less than it had been in the 1980’s. During this decade, his voice could be heard in the film Crayon Shin-chan: Action Kamen vs. Haigure Mao, Lupin III: Voyage to Danger, Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Ijiwaru Baasan, the film Lupin III: Dead or Alive, the film Lupin III: The Secret of Twilight Gemini, the film Hermes – Winds of Love, the Sakura Wars OAV, Vampire Princess Miyu, Reign: The Conqueror, and Sakura Wars 2.

Nozawa’s anime voice acting work went back up in the 2000’s. During the decade, his voice could be heard in Alexander: The Movie, Ghost Stories, One Piece: The Movie, Sakura Wars, Hellsing, Salaryman Kintaro, Asobotto Senki Goku, Demon Lord Dante, Hanada Shonen-shi, Lupin III: Return of Pycal, Macross Zero, Pokemon Advance, Space Pirate Captain Herlock The Endless Odyssey, The Galaxy Railways, Black Jack, Monster, Ragnarok The Animation, the film Black Jack: The Two Doctors of Darkness, Last Order Final Fantasy VII, Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel, Shinshaku Sengoku Eiyuu Densetsu Sanada Jyuu Yuushi The Animation, Kekkaishi, Claymore, Devil May Cry, MapleStory, Mokke, Cobra the Animation: The Psychogun, Real Drive, To Love-Ru, Cobra the Animation: Time Drive, and Soten Koro.

In addition to anime, Nozawa has provided voices for Japanese dub versions of English films and television series. He has provided voices for C3P0 in the original Star Wars trilogy, a character in The Man from U.N.K.L.E., Doc and Grunge in the live-action Fraggle Rock series, a character in The Beverly Hillbillies, a scientist Skeksis in The Dark Crystal, and for John McClane in the various Die Hard films. Nozawa has also provided voices in the Japanese video games for Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII, Dirge of Cereberus-Final Fantasy VII, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, and Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories.

Sadly, Nachi Nozawa passed away from lung cancer on Saturday, October 30, 2010. He was 72 years old at the time of his death.

Voice roles

Television animation

Theater animation

Video games

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Howard Van Hyning, American percussionist (New York City Opera), died from myocardial infarction he was , 74

Howard Martin Van Hyning was an American percussionist who was best known for his work with the New York City Opera  died from myocardial infarction he was , 74.  He built a collection of more than 1,000 percussion instruments that he would make available to orchestras for performances and which included an array of gongs that were specifically constructed for use in performances of Turandot by Giacomo Puccini. Van Hyning taught at Mannes College The New School for Music.

(January 9, 1936 – October 30, 2010) 

Biography

Van Hyning was born on January 9, 1936 in Umatilla, Florida.[1] He earned his undergraduate degree and a master's from the Juilliard School, which he attended on a scholarship, studying percussion under the instruction of Morris Goldenberg and Saul Goodman.[2] He spent two years with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.[2]
Having been hired by the New York City Opera in 1966, he became the orchestra's principal percussionist, serving for 40 years before he was forced to retire from the company in 2006 due to Parkinson's disease. During his career he amassed a collection of rare and unusual percussion instruments, including a unique set of 13 gongs constructed by the Tronci family specifically for Puccini.[1] Van Hyning had been searching for a proper set of gongs and obtained the original set from the Stivanello Costume Company, which had acquired the gongs as the result of winning a bet.[1] In 1987 he bought the gongs for his collection, paying thousands of dollars for the set, which he described as having "colorful, intense, centered and perfumed" sound qualities.[1] He founded Van Percussion as a company that would rent out his rare and unusual instruments to orchestras around the world.[2]

Death 
 
A resident of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, Van Hyning died at the age of 74 on October 30, 2010, at his home there due to a heart attack. He was survived by his wife, Marlene Piturro, as well as by a daughter and a son.[1]

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Geoffrey Crawley, British photographer and editor, debunked Cottingley Fairies mystery died he was , 83

Geoffrey Crawley was a photographic expert and journalist, and was the editor in chief of British Journal of Photography for two decades. He was noted for exposing the photographs of the Cottingley Fairies taken in the early 20th century as a hoax  died he was , 83.[1]

(10 December 1926 – 29 October 2010)



Crawley was born in 1926 in Bow in London, and moved with his parents to Southend-on-Sea when he was four years old, later moving to Leigh-on-Sea. He was educated at Westcliff High School for Boys, and during World War II he was evacuated to Derbyshire where he was placed with a miner and his family. Already skilled at the piano, Crawley convinced his hosts to purchase a piano to allow him to continue practising.[2] As a child he learned photography from his father.[1] He showed early talent at the piano, and pursued a performance career. He also studied French and German at Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge. Ill health forced him to abandon both his plans to become a professional musician and his studies.[3]

Crawley enjoyed a long career with BJP, joining in the 1960s as a contributor. He became the technical editor, and was promoted to editor in 1967, a position he held for 21 years. Following the sale of the magazine, he reassumed the position of technical editor, continuing until 2000, when he was in his seventies.[4] In 2000 he moved to the Amateur Photographer, where he was a contributor until shortly before his death.[2]

In the 1980s, he published a series of articles debunking the Cottingley Fairies hoax, a series of photographs that had been taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths starting in 1917 that purported to show the girls together with actual fairies and were used by Arthur Conan Doyle and others as evidence of the existence of supernatural entities.[5] While there were longstanding claims that the photographs were hoaxes, Crawley undertook "a scientific and analytical approach" to analyzing the images starting in the 1970s. After studying the capabilities of some of the cameras that had been used to take the photos, Crawley concluded that they would have been unable to capture images as sharp as the ones in the purported unaltered photographs. In a series of articles published in the British Journal of Photography in the early 1980s, Crawley concluded that the images had been manipulated and that the fairies were a hoax. The cousins would later admit that one of the girls had copied images of fairies from a book onto cardboard cutouts that were then photographed. Frances insisted that the final photo in the series was genuine, though Elsie acknowledged that they were all fakes.[1]

Death 
 
Crawley died at the age of 83 on 29 October 2010 at his home in Westcliff-on-Sea. He was survived by his wife, Carolyn, as well as by a son.[1]

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George Hickenlooper, American documentary filmmaker, died of an heart attack he was , 47

George Hickenlooper Director , who won an Emmy Award for the documentary "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse," has died. He was 47.


(May 25, 1963 – October 29, 2010)

Hickenlooper was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended high school at St. Louis University High, where he was part of a group of teenage filmmakers he informally called the "Splicers".[1]
After graduating from Yale University with a B.A. in History and Film Studies in 1986, Hickenlooper interned for the producer Roger Corman, and launched his directing career with Art, Acting, and the Suicide Chair: Dennis Hopper in 1988.

His first feature-length documentary, Hearts of Darkness, explored the making of Apocalypse Now. It won several awards, including the National Board of Review award for "Best Documentary", an American Cinema Editors award for "Best Edited Documentary", two Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awards for "Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming – Directing" and "Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming – Picture Editing", and the International Documentary Association award. Hickenlooper himself won an Emmy for direction.
George Hickenlooper's cousin, John Hickenlooper, who is the mayor of Denver, Colorado and Governor-elect of Colorado, made a cameo appearance as a fictional senator in Hickenlooper's 2010 film Casino Jack.[2]

In addition to his films, Hickenlooper authored a 1991 book, Reel Conversations.
Hickenlooper died in his sleep on October 29, 2010.[3][4] Despite initial reports that Hickenlooper had suffered a heart attack, the coroner ruled that his death was the result of accidental painkiller overdose, combining oxymorphone with alcohol. Sleep apnea and a "moderately enlarged heart" were contributing factors.[5] He is survived by his wife Suzanne, son Charles, a younger brother, and his mother and father.[3]

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    Bärbel Mohr, German author lost her battle with cancer, she was 46.

    Bärbel Mohr  was a German author. Since 1998 she published 20 German books (self-help books, children books, stories) – including the best-selling Bestellungen beim Universum (The Cosmic Ordering Service), translated into 14 languages so far and a German audio edition – which combined have more than 1.5 million copies in print ost her battle with cancer, she was 46.. The foundation for Cosmic Ordering shows a great similarity to the 1937 work of Napoleon Hill, and later to the ideas expressed by Reverend Ike, Kenneth Copeland, Bob Tilton and Jim Bakker.


    (July 5, 1964 - October 29, 2010)

     

    Career

    In 1995 she wrote The Cosmic Ordering Service for a small group of people and distributed it as a Xerox copy. Since then, she has become a household name in Germany.
    In 2006, Noel Edmonds (UK TV-presenter) credited her book with turning his career around. Bärbel regularly gave lectures and workshops on joyful living and how to realise your dreams.

    Personal life

    With her family (husband and twins) she lived close to Munich in the country in Germany.

    Works

    Death
    Barbel suffered a burn-out and fell ill a year ago from cancer .  She lost her battle with cancer, she was 46.




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      Jack Brokensha, Australian jazz musician, composer and arranger. died from complications from congestive heart failure he was , 84

      John Joseph "Jack" Brokensha [1] was a jazz vibraphonist. Brokensha was born in Nailsworth, Adelaide, Australia died from complications from congestive heart failure he was , 84.

       (5 January 1926 - 28 October 2010)

      He initially studied percussion under his father, and played xylophone in vaudeville shows and on radio. He played with the Australian Symphony Orchestra during 1942-44, and played in a band in the Air Force in 1944-46. Forming his own group, he played in Melbourne in 1947-48, Sydney in 1949-50, Brisbane later in 1950, and Adelaide in 1951. In 1953 he moved to Windsor, Ontario, Canada with pianist Bryce Rohde; they formed the Australian Jazz Quartet the following year with Errol Buddle and Dick Healey. This ensemble (sometimes recording as a quintet or sextet) toured together until 1958 after a tour of Australia.




      Brokensha then moved to Detroit, Michigan, USA, where he was hired by Berry Gordy of Motown Records as a percussionist, becoming one of the few white members of Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. recording studio's house band, The Funk Brothers. He was given the nickname "White Jack", to distinguish him from Jack Ashford, an African American percussionist nicknamed "Black Jack". Following further tours Down Under with Sammy Davis, Jr. and Stan Freberg, Brokensha founded his own music production company. He did a session with Art Mardigan in 1963, and after this became more active in disc jockeying and writing music for television. He recorded as a leader again in 1980 and continued to lead his own group well into the 1990s. The Australian Jazz Quartet also reunited for tours and recording in 1994.

      Jack died in Sarasota, Florida, of complications from congestive heart failure at the age of 84.[2]

      Discography

      As leader
      • And Then I Said (Savoy Records, 1963)
      • Holiday Inventions (US Steel, 1968)
      • Boutique (AEM Record Group, 1993)
      • X-Mazz (AEM Record Group, 1994)
      With the Australian Jazz Quartet
      • The Australian Jazz Quintet at the Varsity Drag (Bethlehem, 1957)
      • Australian Jazz Quintet Plus One (Bethlehem, 1957)
      • Rodgers & Hammerstein (Bethlehem, 1957)
      • Free Style (Bethlehem, 1958)
      • Three Penny Opera (Bethlehem, 1958)
      • Reunion! Recorded Live - Adelaide Town Hall (AEM, 1994)

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