Frida Vogels (born 9 January 1930, in Soest) is a Dutch writer, known especially for her partly autobiographical trilogy ''De harde kern'' ("The hard core"), the second part of which was awarded the inaugural

Libris Prize The Libris Literature Award or Libris Prize (Dutch: Libris Literatuur Prijs) is a prize for novels originally written in Dutch. Established in 1993, it is awarded annually since 1994 by Libris, an association of independent Dutch booksellers, a ...

in 1994. Vogels is noted for the close connection between her work and her life, as well as for her low profile: she did not appear at the presentation of the Libris Prize, and there are no photographs published of her. Vogels lives in

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, Italy.

Career

Vogels' literary career began with ''De harde kern'', on which she had been at work for four decades; the first volume was published in 1992. The Libris Prize for the second volume, published 1993, garnered her commercial and critical success; the third volume, a collection of poems, was published in 1994. Since then she has published eight of the sixteen planned volumes of her diaries, and in 2011 a booklet containing diary entries of Aunt Lucietta, an aunt of her husband. As an editor, Vogels selected texts by Dutch author Bert Weijde (1932-1986) for a posthumously published collection ''Onder het ijs'' ("Under the ice"). She has also inspired other authors: she and Weijde were friends of

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, and she appears in his ''Bij nader inzien'' as Henriëtte Fagel; conversely, Voskuil appears in ''De harde kern'' as Jacob. Vogels also translates from Italian to Dutch, and has rendered works by Giacomo Debenedetti,

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, and

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Frida Vogels
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