Gerrit Jan Komrij (born 30 March 1944 in Winterswijk, Gelderland) is a Dutch poet, novelist, translator, critic, polemic journalist and playwright. From 2000 to 2004 he was the Dutch Dichter des Vaderlands (Poet Laureate).
Gerrit Jan Komrij was born in the eastern Dutch town of Winterswijk. He soon moved to Amsterdam and began a literary career. In 1968 his first volume of poetry was published, Maagdenburgse halve bollen en andere gedichten, and ...
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Gerrit Jan Komrij (born 30 March 1944 in Winterswijk, Gelderland) is a Dutch poet, novelist, translator, critic, polemic journalist and playwright. From 2000 to 2004 he was the Dutch Dichter des Vaderlands (Poet Laureate).
Gerrit Jan Komrij was born in the eastern Dutch town of Winterswijk. He soon moved to Amsterdam and began a literary career. In 1968 his first volume of poetry was published, Maagdenburgse halve bollen en andere gedichten, and in 1969 he became editor of the Bert Bakker-founded literary magazine Maatstaf. In the seventies he also became a critic of television, literature, and architecture, well-feared for his colorful and sarcastic language.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Komrij and his partner Charles Hofman befriended a number of Dutch authors including Boudewijn Büch, with whom he maintained a lengthy correspondence. In the early 1980s Komrij and Hofman moved to Portugal, not long after his play Het Chemisch Huwelijk premiered in Amsterdam; he has lived in Portugal ever...
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