Pierre Kemp, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pierre Kemp

Dutch writer

Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1886

Place of Birth: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

Date of Death: 21-Jul-1967

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Pierre Kemp (1 December 1886 – 21 July 1967) was a Dutch poet and painter, the recipient of the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1956 and the P.
C.
Hooft Award in 1958.
His younger brother was the writer Mathias Kemp.
Kemp was born in Maastricht and died there in 1967.
In Limburg, the county where he was born, people made fun of his surname; in several dialects of Dutch and the regional Limburgian language, 'kemp' (as kennep and general Dutch hennep) is the colloquial term for marijuana.