Theunis Uilke (Theun) de Vries (1907 - 2005), was a Dutch
writer and poet.
De Vries was born in the Frisian town of Veenwouden. His
parents moved to Apeldoorn in 1920. In 1936 he joined the Communist Party of
the Netherlands and a year later he moved to Amsterdam to pursue a career in
journalism. He became editor of the communist newspaper De Tribune and De Vrije
Katheder. After the occupation of the Netherlands by Nazi forces he was
arrested and imprisoned in Kamp Amersfoort. In 1971 he left the party without
renouncing Marxism, which he continued to uphold until the end of his life.
De Vries wrote poetry and novels, both in Dutch and Frisian.
Among his most acclaimed novels are Het meisje met het rode haar (The Girl withthe Red Hair) and the trilogy Februari (February), both novels about the Dutch
resistance in World War II.
He died in Amsterdam at the age of 97 after having suffered
from several bouts of pneumonia.
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