Theun de Vries

Theunis Uilke (Theun) de Vries (26 April 1907 – 21 January 2005), was a Dutch writer and poet.

In 1936 he joined the Communist Party of the Netherlands and a year later he moved to Amsterdam to pursue a career in journalism.

[1] Despite his Communist politics he translated Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's anti-Soviet novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich into Dutch in 1963.

Among his most acclaimed novels are The Girl With the Red Hair (Het meisje met het rode haar) about Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft, and the trilogy Februari, also about the Dutch resistance in World War II.

Other biographical subjects included Karl Marx, R.J. Schimmelpenninck, Haydn, Bosch, Rembrandt, Van Gogh.