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VSB Poëzieprijs
The VSB Poetry Prize () is the most important Dutch language poetry prize. It was awarded annually to a Dutch-language poet from 1994 until 2018. The prize winner was announced on the day before Poetry Day in the Netherlands, the last Thursday in January. It is funded by the VSB cultural fund, which was established by the Dutch bank Fortis (finance), Verenigde Spaarbank. The award was initiated through the efforts of Huub Oosterhuis. The prize consisted of 25,000 Euros and a sculpture created by artist . Prize winners References {{reflist Dutch poetry awards Awards established in 1994 1994 establishments in the Netherlands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the List of languages by total number of speakers, third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (which includes 60% of the population of Belgium). "1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." (page 153). Dutch was one of the official languages of South Africa until 1925, when it was replaced by Afrikaans, a separate but partially Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch. Afrikaans, depending on the definition used, may be considered a sister language, spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, and evolving from Cape Dutch dialects. In South America, Dutch is the native l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Nolens
Leon Helena Sylvain Nolens (born 11 April 1947 in Bree), pseudonym Leonard Nolens, is a Belgian poet and diary writer. He graduated from the ''Hoger Instituut voor Vertalers en Tolken'' in Antwerp. Nolens lives and works in Antwerp. Themes in his writings include love and ways to escape one's identity. Bibliography * 1969 - Orpheushanden (poetry) * 1973 - De muzeale minnaar (poetry) * 1975 - Twee vormen van zwijgen (poetry) * 1977 - Incantatie (poetry) * 1979 - Alle tijd van de wereld (poetry) * 1981 - Hommage (poetry) * 1983 - Vertigo (poetry) * 1986 - De gedroomde figuur (poetry) * 1988 - Geboortebewijs (poetry) * 1989 - Stukken van mensen (diary) * 1990 - Liefdes verklaringen (poetry) * 1991 - Hart tegen hart (poetry) * 1992 - Tweedracht (poetry) * 1993 - Blijvend vertrek (diary) * 1994 - Honing en as (poetry) * 1995 - De vrek van Missenburg (diary) * 1996 - En verdwijn met mate (poetry) * 1997 - De liefdesgedichten (poetry) * 1998 - Een lastig portret (diary) * 1999 - Voor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Poetry Awards
Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands ** Dutch people as an ethnic group () ** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship () ** Dutch language () * In specific terms, it reflects the Kingdom of the Netherlands ** Dutch Caribbean ** Netherlands Antilles Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People Ethnic groups * Pennsylvania Dutch, a group of early German immigrants to Pennsylvania Specific people * Dutch (nickname), a list of people * Johnny Dutch (born 1989), American hurdler and field athlete * Dutch Schultz (1902–1935), American mobster born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer * Dutch Mantel, ring name of American retired professional wrestler Wayne Maurice Keown (born 1949) * Dutch Savage, ring name of professional wrestler and promoter Frank Stewart (1935–2013) Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Claus
Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (; 5 April 1929 – 19 March 2008) was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, novels, and poetry; he also left a legacy as a painter and film director. He wrote primarily in Dutch, although he also wrote some poetry in English. He won the 2000 International Nonino Prize in Italy. His death by euthanasia, which is legal in Belgium, led to considerable controversy. Life Hugo Claus was born on 5 April 1929 at Sint-Janshospitaal in Bruges, Belgium."Een virtuoze alleskunner" (19 March 2008). ''De Verdieping''. Retrieved 18 June 2010. He was the eldest of four sons born to Jozef Claus and Germaine Vanderlinden. Jozef worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Vroman
Leo Vroman (April 10, 1915 – February 22, 2014) was a Dutch-American hematologist, a prolific poet mainly in Dutch and an illustrator. Life and work Vroman, who was Jewish, was born in Gouda, South Holland, Gouda and studied biology in Utrecht University, Utrecht. When the Nazis occupied the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, he fled to London, and from there he traveled to the Dutch East Indies. He finished his studies in Jakarta, Batavia. After the Japanese occupied Indonesia he was interned and stayed in several prisoner-of-war camps. In the camp Tjimahi he befriended the authors Tjalie Robinson and Rob Nieuwenhuys. His uncle was the physician and medical researcher Isidore Snapper, who worked in New York City after emigrating from the Netherlands. (The mathematician Ernst Snapper was Vroman;s cousin.) After the war, Vroman went to the United States to work in New York (state), New York as a hematology researcher. He gained American citizenship and lived in Fort Worth until his d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerrit Kouwenaar
Gerrit Kouwenaar (9 August 1923 – 4 September 2014) was a Dutch journalist, translator, poet and prose writer. Biography Kouwenaar was born in Amsterdam, North Holland. In the early 1940s, during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, he wrote various clandestine publications (the first in 1941), and worked for the illegal newspaper '' Parade der Profeten''. He was arrested for this and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. His first collection of poetry appeared in 1949, but he gained wider attention as a member of the Dutch poetry group known as the Vijftigers - the '50s poets'. Kouwenaar worked for magazines and newspapers such as ''Vrij Nederland'', ''De Waarheid'', and ''Het Vrije Volk''. Kouwenaar was awarded the Martinus Nijhoff Prize in 1967 for his translation work. In 1970, he was given the P. C. Hooft Award The P.C. Hooft Award (in Dutch: P.C. Hooft-prijs), inaugurated in 1948, is a Dutch-language literary lifetime-achievement award named after 17th-centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutger Kopland
Rutger Kopland (born Rudi van den Hoofdakker) (4 August 1934, Goor Goor () is a city in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located about west of Enschede. Goor received city rights in 1263. Goor was a separate municipality until 2001, when it became part of Hof van Twente. Goor had a statue of Joan Derk v ... – 11 July 2012, Glimmen) was a Dutch poet who gained great popularity for his "accessible, thoughtful style, his mild irony, his sentimentality" and whose collections sold over 200,000 copies. References 1934 births 2012 deaths Dutch male poets Dutch psychiatrists University of Groningen alumni Academic staff of the University of Groningen People from Hof van Twente 20th-century Dutch poets 20th-century Dutch male writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers {{Netherlands-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Jansma
Esther Jansma (24 December 1958 – 23 January 2025) was a Dutch writer, poet and academic. Jansma was born in Amsterdam on 24 December 1958, the daughter of two sculptors: Adam Jansma and Nel van Lith. Her father died in an accident when Jansma was six years old. She started writing poetry at an early age: she wrote her first poem at the age of 12.Biography bloodaxebooks.com. Accessed 21 March 2025. She later worked as an . She was the scientific director of the Netherlands Centre for Dendrochronology Foundation. Dendrochronologists investigate the age and origin of wood, and often try to discover something about the lives of people centuries ago. She was a special professor of dend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kees Ouwens
Cornelis Johannes "Kees" Ouwens (27 June 1944 in Zeist – 24 August 2004 in Heemstede) was a Dutch novelist and poet. He won numerous awards throughout his career, among them the 2002 Constantijn Huygens Prize The Constantijn Huygens Prize (Dutch: ''Constantijn Huygens-prijs'') is a Dutch literary award.Profile at the Digital library for Dutch literature 1944 births [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anneke Brassinga
Anneke Brassinga (born 20 August 1948, in Schaarsbergen, Gelderland) is a Dutch writer and translator. She was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 2008, and has received numerous other prizes as well. Life and career Brassinga studied Translation Studies in Amsterdam. She works as a literary translator, and has translated the works of the following authors into Dutch: George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Sylvia Plath, Patricia Highsmith, W.H. Auden, Hermann Broch, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Marcel Proust, and Jules Verne. She is considered a postmodern writer, but she prefers to see herself as surrealist. The themes of her poetry are nature, love, the vulnerability of beauty and language. Works Poetry *''Aurora'' (1987) *''Landgoed'' (1989) *''Thule'' (1991) *''Zeemeeuw in boomvork'' (1994) *''Huisraad'' (1998) *''Verschiet'' (2001) *''Timiditeiten'' (2003) *''Wachtwoorden. Verzamelde herziene gedichten, 1987-2003.'' (2005)(with cd) ** ''Wacht ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonnus Oosterhoff
Tonnus Oosterhoff (Leiden, 18 March 1953) is a Dutch poet and writer. Biography Born in Leiden, Tonnus Oosterhoff spent most of life in the Dutch province of Groningen. He studied Dutch literature and linguistics at the University of Groningen. Before publishing literary work, he wrote several anonymous stories for the magazine '' Mijn Geheim''. One of them was republished in his later collection of short stories ''Dans zonder vloer'' ("Dance without floor", 2003) with an alternate "less unrealistic" happy end. He made his debut in the literary magazine ''Raster''. Oosterhoff published collections of poems, short stories, essays, a novel, a play and a radio drama. His oeuvre distinguishes itself by the use of subdued humour and the desire the reinvent itself with every new book. In 2001 he launched a website with moving poems. In 2005 he was a guest writer at his old university in Groningen. In 2008 Oosterhoff received the Awater Poëzieprijs for his work ''Ware grootte''. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nachoem Wijnberg
Nachoem Mesoelam (Nachoem) Wijnberg (Amsterdam, 13 April 1961) is a poet and author from the Netherlands. He studied at the University of Amsterdam and received his Ph.D. at the Rotterdam School of Management. Since 2005 he is lecturing business administration at the University of Amsterdam. In 2008 he won the Ida Gerhardt Poëzieprijs The Ida Gerhardt Poëzieprijs (Dutch for Ida Gerhardt Poetry Prize) is a Dutch poetry award named after classicist and poet Ida Gerhardt. The award was created by the municipal council of the city of Zutphen and is now awarded by the Stichting .... In 2018, Wijnberg won the P.C. Hooft Award for his entire oeuvre. (in Dutch), Website P.C. Hooft Award. Retrieved 11 December 2018. Bibliography ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
