 It received an Oscar and a Golden Globe for best foreign movie and has been translated into more than twenty languages.His novel "The Discovery of Heaven" (1992) is considered his masterpiece, and was voted “the best Dutch-language book ever” by Dutch readers in a 2007 newspaper poll.“It is the book that shaped our generation; it made us love, even obsess, with reading,” said Peter-Paul Spanjaard, 32, a lawyer in Amsterdam at the time of Mulisch's death.