Siegfried Emanuel van Praag:
(Amsterdam, 8 August 1899 – Brussels, 16 March 2002)
Dutch writer.
He was the son of a Jewish diamond merchant and became a secondary school French teacher. In 1925, he published his first novel, the first of some sixty books. In the same year, he married the journalist Hilda Sanders. In 1936, he settled in Brussels, and when the Germans invaded the Netherlands and Belgium, he fled with her to London, where he worked for the radio.
After the war, he returned to the Netherlands, where he taught at various schools. Among other things, he taught French language and literature at the MO training courses in Rotterdam, the Nutsacademie. But he also continued to publish novels until the 1980s, when he had already been somewhat forgotten. He died at the age of 102 in a Brussels nursing home.
No passionate man is free, but what would we do with freedom without a passionately desired goal?
Infidelity in love does not cancel love, but infidelity in friendship proves that friendship did not exist.
