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Kars, Theo, 1940-2015

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Personal name headingKars, Theo, 1940-2015
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Variant(s)Kars, Theodoor, 1940-
Kars, Theodoor, 1940-2015
Kohn, Hannah, 1940-2015
Other standard no.0000000083517216
Associated countryNetherlands Spain
LocatedIbiza (Spain)
Birth date1940-03-22
Death date2015-11-10
Place of birthRotterdam (Netherlands)
Place of deathAmsterdam (Netherlands)
Field of activityNovels Autobiographies Biographies
Translating and interpreting Journalism
Profession or occupationNovelists Translators Journalists Biographers
Found inAuthor's De vervalsers, 1967: title page (Theodoor Kars)
De laatste jaren van Casanova, 1998: title page (Theo Kars)
Jacobson, Dan. De verkrachting van Tamar, 1972: title page (vertaald door Theo Kars)
Parels voor de zwijnen, 1975: title page (Theo Kars)
Balzac, HonoreĢ de. Neef Pons, 2000: title page (vertaald en van een nawoord voorzien door Theo Kars)
Stendahl. De Kartuize van Parma, 2003: title page (vertaald door Theo Kars)
Dbnl WWW site, viewed February 22, 2023 (Kars, Theo; born March 22, 1940 in Rotterdam; died November 10, 2015 in Amsterdam)
BnF authorities, viewed February 22, 2023 record 12769931 (Kars, Theo (1940-2015); country: Netherlands; born: 1940-03-22, Rotterdam, Netherlands; died: 2015-11-10; writer; also wrote under the pseudonym Hannah Kohn; variant: Kars, Theodoor, 1940-2015; source(s): Royal Library, Netherlands; BnF Service dutch, 2015-11-17)
Author's WWW site, viewed February 22, 2023 Over Theo Kars page (in 1964 he founded the literary magazine Tegenstroom; he established his name with the novel De vervalsers in 1967; from 1969-1985 he published a number of successful novels, as well as other works, including a selection of his articles from Tegenstroom (Parels voor de zwijnen), and a biography of Anatole France; he officially settled in Ibiza in 1985; from 1987-1991 he was a columnist for the weekly Aktuel; at the end of the 80s, he decide to translate Casanova's 12-volume memoirs; at the same time as the last volume of the memoirs, he published his monograph De laatste jaren van Casanova in 1998; in 2010 he published the first volume of his memoirs, Memoires van een slecht mens, the second part following in 2013)
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