Leo Vroman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Leo Vroman

Dutch poet

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1915

Place of Birth: Gouda, South Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 22-Feb-2014

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, biologist, painter, hematologist, autobiographer

Nationality: United States, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Leo Vroman (April 10, 1915 – February 22, 2014) 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 Nazis occupied the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, he fled to London, and from there he traveled to the Dutch East Indies.
He finished his studies in Batavia.
After the Japanese occupied Indonesia he was interned and stayed in several prisoner-of-war camps.
In the camp Tjimahi he befriended the authors Tjalie Robinson and Rob Nieuwenhuys. After the war, Vroman went to the United States to work in New York as a hematology researcher.
He gained American citizenship and lived in Fort Worth until his death in 2014, aged 98.In 1946, he published his first poems in the Netherlands, and since then has won almost every Dutch literary poetry prize possible.
In 1970 Vroman was awarded the Individual Science Award by Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
In 2003, his former high school, de Goudse ScholenGemeenschap (GSG), changed its name into de Goudse ScholenGemeenschap Leo Vroman (GSG Leo Vroman).