1. Til Brugman (1888)

Dutch Poet

Dutch poet and linguist whose work was featured in publications like De Stijl and Merz. She was known for exploring themes of sexism and capitalism.

2. Ida Gerhardt (1905)

Dutch Poet

Ida Gerhardt was a classicist and Dutch poet of a post-symbolist tradition.

3. Marie Kessels (1954)

Dutch Poet

Marie Kessels is a Dutch poet and prose writer. She received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2009 for Ruw.

4. Hannie Rouweler (1951)

Dutch Poet

Hannie Rouweler is a Dutch poet. Rouweler was born as one of seven children in a Roman Catholic family in the primarily Protestant village of Goor.

5. Astrid Lampe (1955)

Dutch Poet

Astrid Lampe is a Dutch poet actor and director. In addition she teaches students of the Department of Language and Image at Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.

6. M. H. Benders (1971)

Dutch Poet

Martinus Hendrikus Benders is a Dutch poet essayist publisher editor graphic designer polemicist satirist interventionist. Benders’ first collection of poetry was the critically acclaimed Karavanserai for which he was nominated...

7. Willem Wilmink (1936)

Dutch Poet

was a Dutch poet and writer. He was best known for his the large number of songs he wrote for popular children programs and his simple poetry. Wilmink was born...

8. Catharina Questiers (1631)

Dutch Poet

Catharina Questiers was a Dutch poet and dramatist. Along with Cornelia van der Veer and Katharyne Lescailje she was the most successful female Dutch poet of the second half of...

9. Everhardus Johannes Potgieter (1808)

Dutch Poet

Everhardus Johannes Potgieter was a Dutch prose writer and poet who was born at Zwolle in Overijssel. He started life in a merchants office at Antwerp. In 1831 he made...

10. C. Buddingh' (1918)

Dutch Poet

Cornelis Buddingh' was a Dutch poet TV-presenter translator and the father of Harry Potter translator Wiebe Buddingh'. Amongst others he translated A Clockwork Orange and the complete works of William...

11. Carel Scharten (1878)

Dutch Poet

Carel Theodorus Scharten was a Dutch poet. He was born in Middelburg and died in Florence Italy. In 1928 he and his wife Margo Scharten-Antink won a bronze medal in...

12. Piet Paaltjens (1835)

Dutch Poet

çois Haverschmidt was a Dutch minister and writer who wrote prose under his own name but remains best known for the poetry published under the pen name of Piet Paaltjens.

13. Leo Vroman (1915)

Dutch Poet

Leo Vroman was a Dutch-American hematologist a prolific poet mainly in Dutch and an illustrator. Vroman was born in Gouda and studied biology in Utrecht. When the National Socialist German...

14. David Questiers (1623)

Dutch Poet

David Questiers was a Dutch poet. Questiers was born and died in Amsterdam and was the brother of the noted poet Catharina Questiers.

15. Hieronymus van Alphen (1746)

Dutch Poet

Hieronymus van Alphen a jurist in Utrecht Leiden and The Hague is especially remembered as a poet particularly for his poems for children under the title Kleine gedigten voor kinderen....

16. Willem Bilderdijk (1756)

Dutch Poet

Bilderdijk Dutch poet the son of an Amsterdam physician. When he was six years old an accident to his foot incapacitated him for ten years and he developed habits...

17. Gerrit Achterberg (1905)

Dutch Poet

Gerrit Achterberg was a Dutch poet. His early poetry concerned a desire to be united with a beloved in death. Achterberg was born in Nederlangbroek in the Netherlands as the...

18. Jeremias de Dekker (Unknow)

Dutch Poet

Jeremias de Dekker or Decker was a Dutch poet. Dekker was born in Dordrecht. His father was a native of Antwerp who having embraced the reformed religion had been compelled...

19. Cornelia van der Veer (1639)

Dutch Poet

Cornelia van der Veer was a Dutch poet. Along with Catharina Questiers and Katharyne Lescailje she was the most successful female Dutch poet of the second half of the 17th...

20. Nel Benschop (1918)

Dutch Poet

Nelly Anna Nel Benschop was a Dutch poet. She was a best selling poet in the Netherlands.

21. Martinus Nijhoff (1894)

Dutch Poet

Martinus Nijhoff was a Dutch poet and essayist. He studied literature in Amsterdam and law in Utrecht. His debut was made in 1916 with his volume De wandelaar. From that...

22. Nachoem Wijnberg (1961)

Dutch Poet

Nachoem Mesoelam Wijnberg is a poet and author from the Netherlands. He studied at the University of Amsterdam and received his Ph. D. at the Rotterdam School of Management. Since...

23. John O'Mill (1915)

Dutch Poet

Johan van der Meulen better known by his pseudonym John O'Mill is a Dutch author mostly known for his wordplay and limericks and for using a macaronic combination of Dutch...

24. Albert Verwey (1865)

Dutch Poet

Albert Verwey was a Dutch poet associated with the Movement of Eighty. Albert Verweywas born May 15 1865 Amsterdam Neth. Died March 8 1937 Noordwijk aan Zee. He was a...

25. Reyer Anslo (Unknow)

Dutch Poet

Reyer Anslo was a Dutch poet.

26. David Franco Mendes (Unknow)

Dutch Poet

David Franco Mendes was a Jewish Hebrew-language poet born in Amsterdam Aug. 13 1713; died there Oct. 10 1792. A business man he devoted his leisure hours to the study...

27. Jacob Steendam (Unknow)

Dutch Poet

Jacob Jacobsz Steendam was a Dutch poet and a minister. He collaborated with Pieter Corneliszoon Plockhoy.

28. Maria Petronella Woesthoven (1760)

Dutch Poet

Maria Petronella Woesthoven was a Dutch poet. Woesthoven was born in Dantumawoude the daughter of military Johannes Woesthoven. She was a member of the academy Amsteldamse Dicht- en Letteroefenend Genootschap...

29. Hans Warren (1921)

Dutch Poet

Johannes Adrianus Menne Warren was a Dutch writer. Much of his fame in the Netherlands derives from having published a collection of diaries in which he described his life and...

30. Jan Hanlo (1912)

Dutch Poet

Johannes Bernardus Maria Raphael Hanlo was under the pen name Jan Hanlo a Dutch poet and writer. The poem De mus of the Dutch poet Jan Hanlo as a wall...

31. Margo Scharten-Antink (1869)

Dutch Poet

Margo Sybranda Everdina Scharten-Antink was a Dutch poet. She was born in Zutphen and died in Florence Italy. In 1928 she and her husband Carel Scharten won a bronze medal...

32. Jan Elburg (1919)

Dutch Poet

Joannes Gommert Elburg writing as Jan G. Elburg was a Dutch poet. He won numerous awards throughout his career among them the 1976 Constantijn Huygens Prize.

33. Theo Budde (1889)

Dutch Poet

Theo Cornelis Budde was a watchmaker jeweler and antique dealer as well as a poet who left a legacy in his hometown. Theo Budde was instrumental in establishing tourism in...

34. Driek van Wissen (1943)

Dutch Poet

Driek van Wissen was a Dutch poet. He was born in Groningen. On 26 January 2005 he was chosen as the Dichter des Vaderlands following Gerrit Komrij. In 1987 the...

35. Johan van Heemskerk (1597)

Dutch Poet

Johan van Heemskerk Dutch poet was born at Amsterdam. He was educated as a child at Bayonne and entered the university of Leiden in 1617. In 1621 he went abroad...

36. Jacobus Bellamy (Unknow)

Dutch Poet

Jacob Bellamy – March 11 1786 in Utrecht) was a Dutch poet.

37. Hendrik Marsman (1899)

Dutch Poet

Hendrik Marsman was a Dutch poet and writer. He drowned while escaping to Great Britain when the ship he was on was torpedoed by a German submarine.

38. Hendrik Tollens (1780)

Dutch Poet

Henricus Franciscus Caroluszoon Tollens was a Dutch poet best known for Wien Neêrlands Bloed the national anthem of the Netherlands between 1815 and 1932. The Tollensprijs is named after him.

39. Jan Boerstoel (1944)

Dutch Poet

Jan Boerstoel is a Dutch writer and poet who is perhaps best known for his song texts especially for cabaret. He lives in Amsterdam. His poetry is melancholy but often...

40. Jan Frederik Helmers (1767)

Dutch Poet

Jan Frederik Helmers Dutch poet was born at Amsterdam.

41. Johannes Secundus (1511)

Dutch Poet

Johannes Secundus was a New Latin poet of Dutch nationality.

42. Jules Deelder (1944)

Dutch Poet

Julius Anton Deelder is a Dutch poet and writer. His poems cover topics such as life in the city of Rotterdam drug use and jazz. He is well-known in the...

43. Jan Vos (poet) (Unknow)

Dutch Poet

Jan Jansz. Vos was a Dutch playwright and poet. A glassmaker by trade he also played an important role as stage-manager and director of the theatre. He organized on the...

44. Johan de Wit (poet) (Unknow)

Dutch Poet

Johan de Wit is a contemporary British poet born in the Netherlands. He is the author of as many as twenty publications. His first collection Rose Poems was published by...

45. Jeremy Boissevain (Unknow)

Dutch Poet

Jeremy Boissevain is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research.