Schools

After completing his first year at the Sint Odulphus Lyceum in Tilburg, Nooteboom was sent to a Catholic boarding school, the Gymnasium Immaculatae Conceptionis in Venray, which was run by Franciscan friars. He studied at the school for two years. Then he moved to Hilversum with his mother, where he completed the fourth year of senior school at the Roman Catholic Lyceum voor het Gooi. His stepfather then sent him to another priory school: the Augustinianum in Eindhoven. Nooteboom owes his often expressed love of reading and his studious inclination to the time spent at these religious schools. ‘I can’t imagine my life without Greek and Latin; I would have become someone else.’