Foto: R. Amesz

vrijdag 14 januari 2011

EYEWEAR: FEATURED POET: HANS VAN DE WAARSENBURG

'Eyewear is very glad to welcome Dutch poet Hans van de Waarsenburg (pictured) to these pages this rainy Friday in London. He was born in Helmond in1943 and published his first collection of poems, Gedichten (Poems), in 1965. His collection De vergrijzing (The graying) was awarded the prestigious Jan Campert Prize for Poetry in 1973. In March 2004 he received the first Municipal Award of the Helmond Town Council for his entire work. Between 1997 and 2000 he was chairman of the PEN Centre of the Netherlands.'

Foto Peter Geurten





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