Henk van der Waal

In this Dutch name, the family name is van der Waal, not Waal.

Henk van der Waal
Born (1960-01-03) 3 January 1960
Hilversum
OccupationPoet
NationalityDutch
Notable awards

Henk van der Waal (born 1960) is a Dutch poet.

Early life

Van der Waal studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.[1]

Career

Van der Waal has worked as a journalist, a translator and as a teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.[1]

In 1996 he won the C. Buddingh'-prijs for his debut poetry collection De windsels van de sfinx (1995).[1][2] His second poetry collection Schuldsanering (2000) was nominated for the Paul Snoek-poëzieprijs. He was also nominated for the VSB-Poëzieprijs in 2004 for his poetry collection De aantochtster (2003).

In 2012 he won the Ida Gerhardt Poëzieprijs for his poetry collection Zelf worden.[3] The collection was also nominated for the VSB-Poëzieprijs.

Van der Waal and Erik Lindner wrote the book De kunst van het dichten, a collection of essays and conversations with other poets, including Nachoem Wijnberg, Anneke Brassinga and Anne Vegter. Van der Waal also published Liefdesgeschiedenissen in 1991, a Dutch translation of the work Histoires d'amour (1983) by Bulgarian-French philosopher Julia Kristeva. He has also translated works of Maurice Blanchot, Paul Auster and Hans Faverey.

Awards

References
  1. "Henk van der Waal". Poetry International Web. Archived from the original on 12 March 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  2. "Budding(h)' Poets viert 30 jaar C.Buddingh'-prijs" (in Dutch). Poëzieclub. 10 November 2018. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  3. Pardijs, Tim (17 March 2012). "Ida Gerhardt Poëzieprijs voor Van der Waal: 'Unieke combinatie in de Nederlandse poëzie'" (in Dutch). Hanta. Archived from the original on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
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