Pem Sluijter

Pem Sluijter[lower-alpha 1] (15 May 1939 – 18 December 2007) was a Dutch poet.

Pem Sluijter
Pem Sluijter in 2003
BornPetronella Eduarda Maria Rutgers-Sluijter
(1939-05-15)15 May 1939
Middelburg
Died18 December 2007(2007-12-18) (aged 68)
The Hague
OccupationPoet
NationalityDutch

Biography

Pem Sluijter was born in 1939 in Middelburg.

Sluijter worked between 1959 and 1963 as journalist at Het Parool.[1][2]

Sluijter made her debut at 58 years of age with poetry collection Roos is een bloem (1997). She won the C. Buddingh'-prijs for this debut.[1] Her second poetry collection Het licht van Attica was published in 2004.[1] Both of her publications were published by De Arbeiderspers.

Sluijter died in The Hague in December 2007.[1]

In 2018, her poem Nachtbraak was added to a wall in the Batjanstraat in The Hague, both in Dutch and translated into English.[2]

Awards

Publications
  • Roos is een bloem (1997)
  • Het licht van Attica (2004)

Notes
  1. Sometimes spelled as Pem Sluyter.
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References
  1. "Dichteres Sluijter overleden" (in Dutch). NRC. 21 December 2007. Archived from the original on 13 March 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  2. "Vijftiende muurgedicht in de Batjanstraat" (in Dutch). Stichting ArchipelpoëZie. 29 June 2018. Archived from the original on 13 March 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
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