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- Simon Vestdijk was born on October 10, 1898 in Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands. He was a writer, known for Pastorale 1943 (1978), Het verboden bacchanaal (1981) and Ivoren wachters (1998). He died on March 23, 1971 in Utrecht, Netherlands.
- Vestdijk struggled with severe depressions from his youth, and until the end of his life.
- Some of his novels appeared as films in the cinema, or were broadcast on television.
- From 1932, he lived from literature and he became one of the most important 20th-century writers in the Netherlands.
- Vestdijk was a Dutch writer.
- He also wrote much poetry and short stories and his work has been translated into several European languages.
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