Anthonie Koolhaas was born on 16 November 1912 in
Utrecht, Netherlands. He was the son of Teunis Koolhaas and Trijntje de Boer, and he had two elder brothers and an elder sister. He grew up in Utrecht, where the
Remonstrant family lived. He had little connection with the members of his family and he developed a rich imagination. He wrote his first play at the age of seven. He attended the
hogere burgerschool in Utrecht. Between 1931 and 1935 he attended
Utrecht University, studying an individual program related to
journalism. He wrote the scenario of the
Academy Award-nominated films
Everyman (1963) and
Ape and Super-Ape (1972), both directed by
Bert Haanstra. He is the father of architect
Rem Koolhaas (1944). He won the
Constantijn Huygens Prize for his complete works in 1989 and the
P. C. Hooft Award, a literary oeuvre award, in 1992. He died on 16 December 1992, age 80, in
Amsterdam, Netherlands. ==Bibliography==