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Herman Koch


Born
in Arnhem, Netherlands
September 05, 1953

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Literature & Fiction


Herman Koch (1953) is known as a television producer and a writer. The book 'Het diner', published in 2009, was his breakthrough in the Netherlands. It was published in 17 countries. It was partly based on a true story involving a homeless woman named, María del Rosario Endrinal Petit, in Barcelona (Spain), in December 2005.

Koch was born in Arnhem, and later moved to Amsterdam. He studied Russian for some months, and lived in Finland for a while. Nowadays he is married to the Spanish Amalia, and has a son, Pablo (1994).

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Average rating: 3.24 · 236,703 ratings · 27,502 reviews · 68 distinct works • Similar authors
The Dinner
3.21 avg rating — 174,428 ratings — published 2009 — 178 editions
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3.45 avg rating — 27,848 ratings — published 2011 — 108 editions
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2.75 avg rating — 3,158 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions
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3.30 avg rating — 2,493 ratings — published 2020 — 14 editions
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3.19 avg rating — 2,130 ratings — published 1989 — 18 editions
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“Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.”
― Herman Koch, The Dinner
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“If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn’t have to be validated.”
― Herman Koch, The Dinner
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“Happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn't have to be validated. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Herman Koch
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