Henk van der Waal

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Henk van der Waal
Born (1960-01-03) 3 January 1960 (age 63)
Hilversum, Netherlands
OccupationPoet
NationalityDutch
Notable awards

Henk van der Waal (born 1960) is a Dutch poet.

Early life

Van der Waal studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. [1]

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Career

Van der Waal has worked as a journalist, a translator and as a teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. [1]

In 1996, he won the C. Buddingh'-prijs for his debut poetry collection De windsels van de sfinx (1995). [1] [2] His second poetry collection Schuldsanering (2000) was nominated for the Paul Snoek-poëzieprijs. He was also nominated for the VSB-Poëzieprijs in 2004 for his poetry collection De aantochtster (2003).

In 2012, he won the Ida Gerhardt Poëzieprijs for his poetry collection Zelf worden. [3] The collection was also nominated for the VSB-Poëzieprijs.

Van der Waal and Erik Lindner wrote the book De kunst van het dichten, a collection of essays and conversations with other poets, including Nachoem Wijnberg, Anneke Brassinga and Anne Vegter. Van der Waal also published Liefdesgeschiedenissen in 1991, a Dutch translation of the work Histoires d'amour (1983) by Bulgarian-French philosopher Julia Kristeva. He has also translated works of Maurice Blanchot, Paul Auster and Hans Faverey.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Henk van der Waal". Poetry International Web. Archived from the original on 12 March 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  2. "Budding(h)' Poets viert 30 jaar C.Buddingh'-prijs" (in Dutch). Poëzieclub. 10 November 2018. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  3. Pardijs, Tim (17 March 2012). "Ida Gerhardt Poëzieprijs voor Van der Waal: 'Unieke combinatie in de Nederlandse poëzie'" (in Dutch). Hanta. Archived from the original on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.