"Mulisch is a rarity for these times -- an instinctively psychological novelist" - John Updike, The New Yorker (24/7/1989)

"Harry Mulisch belongs to the first rank of Dutch novelists of his generation." - J.M.Coetzee, The New York Review of Books (6/3/1997)

"Mulisch ist ein Autor, der seine stupende Intelligenz verbergen muß. Das gelingt selbst ihm nicht völlig." - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (20/3/1999)

"Mulisch's manner is urbane, sanguine, epicurean. (He appreciates good food and wine.) But it somehow seems appropriate in the light of what he has in his lifetime seen, and continues to see, that the writers he reveres most are Sophocles, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and Kafka. For all the ease of living that his Amsterdam exudes, theirs, one feels, are the landscapes his mind inhabits." - Paul Binding, The Spectator (27/3/1999)

"A continuing pleasure of Mulisch's work, ranging from sharp, short novels such as The Assault to the splendidly achieved philosophical tome The Discovery of Heaven (...), remains his fusion of cultivated rumination and close attention to daily detail." - Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer (19/10/2003)

"Harry Mulisch is an important writer who stands at the heart of European history and thought, remaking tradition and inviting a rethinking of conventional judgements. He is also a fine storyteller. What are the Immortals of the Swedish Academy waiting for ?" - Joseph Farrell, Times Literary Supplement (28/11/2003)

"To quantify literary fame more accurately, one could ask how many people in Britain have heard of Harry Mulisch, a remarkable and truly distinguished writer whose stature puts him within sniffing distance of the Nobel Prize. Mulisch’s best work, The Discovery of Heaven, is a massive, sprawling and thoroughly engrossing tale of chance and fate that bears comparison with Georges Perec’s Life: A User's Manual. Mulisch is a novelist of ideas -- which perhaps accounts for his relative lack of recognition in Britain." - Andrew Crumey, Scotland on Sunday (30/11/2003)

"Mulisch is a poser and elaborator of mysteries of the very first European rank." - Julian Evans, Sunday Telegraph (14/12/2003)

"Mulisch desires the Nobel Prize in Literature, but the chief beneficiary of such an award would not be the Dutchman, but his readers, who would receive more of his incomparable work in translation were the Prize bestowed upon him." - Jason Picone, Review of Contemporary Fiction (Spring/2004)