Gerrit Kouwenaar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gerrit Kouwenaar

Dutch writer

Date of Birth: 09-Aug-1923

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 04-Sep-2014

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, translator, resistance fighter, journalist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Gerrit Kouwenaar (9 August 1923 – 4 September 2014) was a Dutch journalist, translator, poet and prose writer.
He was first published in 1941.
He was a member of the Dutch poetry group known as the Vijftigers.
Kouwenaar worked for magazines and newspapers such as Vrij Nederland, De Waarheid, and Het Vrije Volk.
During the mid-1940s, he worked for the illegal newspaper Parade der Profeten.
He was arrested for this and sentenced to half a year in jail.
Kouwenaar was awarded the Martinus Nijhoff Prize in 1967 for his translation work.
In 1970, he was given the P.
C.
Hooft Award.
Kouwenaar later won the 1989 Dutch Literature Prize.
In 2009, the Society of Dutch Literature named Kouwenaar the recipient of its annual honor.
His last published work was released on 9 August 2008, Kouwenaar's eighty-fifth birthday.Kouwenaar was born in Amsterdam, North Holland.
He was a resistance fighter during World War II.
The painter and poet David Kouwenaar (1921–2011) was his older brother.
Kouwenaar died on 4 September 2014 in Amsterdam, aged 91.