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Adriaan Roland Holst
Adriaan Roland Holst (1888–1976) was a Dutch poet, nicknamed the prince of poets, who lived in Bergen, wrote Een winter aan zee (1937), and won the P.C. Hooftprijs in 1955.
Albert Verwey
Albert Verwey (1865–1937) was a Dutch poet, critic, and translator who co-founded De Nieuwe Gids in 1885, edited De Beweging, and taught Dutch literature at Leiden.
Anna Enquist
Anna Enquist is the pseudonym of Dutch poet and novelist Christa Broer, born in Amsterdam in 1945, one of the most widely read authors in Dutch literature.
Anton van Duinkerken
Anton van Duinkerken, pen name of Wilhelmus Johannes Maria Antonius Asselbergs (1903–1968), was a Dutch poet, essayist, and professor who was a leading Catholic voice between the wars.
Eva Gerlach
Eva Gerlach is the pen name of Margaret Dijkstra, born 1948 in Amsterdam, a Dutch poet and translator who won the P.C. Hooft-prijs in 2000.
Everhardus Johannes Potgieter
Everhardus Johannes Potgieter (1808–1875) was a Dutch poet and critic who co-founded the magazine De Gids and is considered the founder of Dutch literary criticism.
Frederik van Eeden
Frederik van Eeden (1860–1932) was a Dutch poet, novelist, and psychiatrist who co-founded De Nieuwe Gids in 1885, pioneered psychotherapy in the Netherlands, and coined the term "lucid dream".
Gerrit Achterberg
Gerrit Achterberg was a highly regarded Dutch poet whose themes explored desire beyond death, and was known for killing his landlady in 1937 and later serving mandatory detention.
Gerrit Kouwenaar
Gerrit Kouwenaar (1923–2014) was a Dutch poet and translator, a central member of the experimental Vijftigers group linked to Cobra and one of the most important Dutch-language poets after 1945.
Guido Gezelle
Guido Gezelle (1830–1899) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and poet who wrote in Dutch and his native West Flemish, and is regarded as a founder of modern Flemish poetry.
Hans Verhagen
Hans Verhagen, full name Hans Pieter Verhagen (1939–2020), was a Dutch poet, journalist, and filmmaker, a leading figure of the neorealist movement De Nieuwe Stijl.
Hans Warren
Hans Warren, full name Johannes Adrianus Menne Warren (1921–2001), was a Dutch poet and literary critic whose candid diary series Geheim dagboek, published from 1981, made him one of the most discussed Dutch diarists.
Hendrik Marsman
Hendrik Marsman (1899–1940) was a Dutch poet, translator, and critic, a leading interwar Dutch-language writer whose poem Herinnering aan Holland (1936) was named the Dutch-language poem of the century in 2000.
Hendrik Tollens
Hendrik Tollens (1780–1856) was a Dutch poet, considered the most important national poet of the nineteenth-century Netherlands, known for the anthem "Wien Neêrlands bloed" and the epic about the Nova Zembla wintering.
Henriette Roland Holst
Henriette Roland Holst, born Henriëtte van der Schalk (1869–1952), was a Dutch poet and socialist politician who helped found Dutch communism, translated De Internationale, and joined the resistance.
Herman de Coninck
Herman de Coninck (1944–1997) was a Flemish poet, essayist, and journalist of Flemish New Realism, remembered as "the man who taught his people to read poetry".
Herman Gorter
Herman Gorter (1864–1927) was a Dutch poet and Marxist theorist of the Tachtigers, best known for the epic poem Mei (1889) and his 1920 open letter opposing Lenin.
Ida Gerhardt
Ida Gerhardt (1905–1997) was a Dutch poet and classicist who wrote formal, classically rooted verse apart from the experimental Vijftigers, winning the P.C. Hooft Prize for poetry.
J. C. Bloem
J. C. Bloem, born Jakobus Cornelis Bloem (1887–1966), was a Dutch poet and civil servant whose formally traditional verse made him a classicist in twentieth-century Dutch poetry.
J. H. Leopold
J. H. Leopold (Jan Hendrik Leopold, 1865–1925) was a Dutch symbolist poet and classicist, best known for the long poem Cheops and his free translations of Persian and Arabic poetry.
Jan Frans Willems
Jan Frans Willems (1793–1846) was a Flemish philologist, poet, and literary historian known as the father of the Flemish movement, who edited medieval Dutch texts like Reinaert de Vos.
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff, who published as J. Slauerhoff, was a Dutch physician and poet and ship's doctor, one of the major Dutch poets of the interwar period.
Joost van den Vondel
Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679) was a Dutch poet and playwright of the Dutch Golden Age, known for the tragedies Gysbreght van Aemstel and Lucifer.
Judith Herzberg
Judith Herzberg (Judith Frieda Lina Herzberg, born 1934 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch poet, playwright, and screenwriter, daughter of Abel Herzberg, who won the P.C. Hooftprijs in 1997 and the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren in 2018.
K. Schippers
K. Schippers, the pseudonym of Gerard Stigter, was a Dutch writer and art critic who co-founded Barbarber and used the readymade in poetry.
Karel van de Woestijne
Karel van de Woestijne (1878–1929) was a Flemish poet, prose writer, and art and literary critic from Ghent, regarded as the leading Dutch-language symbolist in Flanders and its first major poet after Guido Gezelle.
Leo Vroman
Leo Vroman (1915–2014) was a Dutch-American poet, biologist, and artist who fled the Netherlands in 1940, later researched blood coagulation in Brooklyn, and won the P.C. Hooftprijs.
Lucebert
Lucebert, the pseudonym of Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk (1924–1994), was a Dutch poet and visual artist who led the experimental Vijftigers movement and is counted among the major Dutch-language poets of the twentieth century.
Luuk Gruwez
Luuk Gruwez (born 1953 in Kortrijk) is a Flemish poet, essayist, and prose writer, a central figure in Dutch-language poetry since his breakthrough collection De feestelijke verliezer (1985).
M. Vasalis
M. Vasalis, pseudonym of Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans (1909 to 1998), was a Dutch poet and psychiatrist who published only three poetry collections yet won the P.C. Hooft-prijs.