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Pem Sluijter

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

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

Biography

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Pem Sluijter was born in 1939 in Middelburg, Netherlands.

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

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Publications

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

Notes

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  1. ^ Sometimes spelled as Pem Sluyter.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Dichteres Sluijter overleden" (in Dutch). NRC. 21 December 2007. Archived from the original on 13 March 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b "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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