Frida Vogels

Frida Vogels (born 9 January 1930, in Soest) is a Dutch writer, known especially for her partly autobiographical trilogy De harde kern ("The hard core"), the second part of which was awarded the inaugural Libris Prize in 1994.[1][2] Vogels is noted for the close connection between her work and her life, as well as for her low profile: she did not appear at the presentation of the Libris Prize, and there are no photographs published of her.[3] Vogels lives in Bologna, Italy.

Career

Vogels' literary career began with De harde kern, on which she had been at work for four decades; the first volume was published in 1992. The Libris Prize for the second volume, published 1993, garnered her commercial and critical success; the third volume, a collection of poems, was published in 1994. Since then she has published eight of the sixteen planned volumes of her diaries, and in 2011 a booklet containing diary entries of Aunt Lucietta, an aunt of her husband.[4]

As an editor, Vogels selected texts by Dutch author Bert Weijde (1932-1986) for a posthumously published collection Onder het ijs ("Under the ice").[5] She has also inspired other authors: she and Weijde were friends of J. J. Voskuil, and she appears in his Bij nader inzien as Henriëtte Fagel;[3] conversely, Voskuil appears in De harde kern as Jacob.

Vogels also translates from Italian to Dutch, and has rendered works by Giacomo Debenedetti, Primo Levi, Cesare Pavese, and Salvatore Satta.

gollark: Oh. Lookup tables. That is not one of the ways I was thinking of, but... sure?
gollark: How are you implementing trigononononononometric functions anyway?
gollark: Expanding on "people find it fun", consider that esolangs are also essentially not-very-useful tools.
gollark: Also even really weird and esoteric stuff turns out to be useful later a lot of the time.
gollark: You can't really do applied maths without knowing the pure maths backing it.

References
  1. "Internet: Voorkeur". NRC Handelsblad. 8 May 2007. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
  2. "Winnaar 1994". Libris Prize. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
  3. Keikes, Andre (29 July 2009). "Frida Vogels - Dagboek 1966-1967". Het Parool. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
  4. Koenders, Edith (7 May 2011). "Tante sprak zelfs de dokters moed in". de Volkskrant. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
  5. Peters, Arjan (13 January 1995). "Weggedoken onder de lakens Bert Weijde bericht ontroerend over zijn vak: verpleegde in een inrichting". de Volkskrant. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
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