Elly de Waard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Elly de Waard

Dutch poet

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1940

Place of Birth: Bergen, North Holland, Netherlands

Profession: writer, poet, translator

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Elly de Waard (born September 8, 1940) is a Dutch poet.She was born in Bergen and was educated at the Murmellius Gymnasium and the University of Amsterdam.
From 1965 to 1984, she was a rock music critic for the Dutch daily newspaper de Volkskrant and the Dutch weekly magazine Vrij Nederland.
She also served on a jury which awarded the Dutch Edison music awards in 1972.
In 1978, de Waard published her first book of poems Afstand (Distance).
She was a founding member of the Anna Bijns Foundation, which awards a prize to a Dutch female writer.
She had a leading role in the group of women poets known as De Nieuwe Wilden (The New Savages).