Robert van Gulik

Dutch diplomat (1910-1967).

Born August 9th, 1910 in Zutphen. [ref]

Died September 24th, 1967 at 57 years old in The Hague (lung cancer). [ref]

Occupations
diplomat, illustrator, linguist, musician, novelist, orientalist, prosaist, translator, writer
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