Henk van der Waal | |
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Born | Hilversum, Netherlands | 3 January 1960
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | Dutch |
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Henk van der Waal (born 1960) is a Dutch poet.
Van der Waal studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. [1]
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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