biography
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Donker, Anthonie
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pseudonym of Nicolaas Anthonie Donkersloot
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| lived:
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| biography:
| Poet and essayist, born in Rotterdam, W Netherlands. He studied Dutch literature at Utrecht in 1929, and became professor at the University of Amsterdam from 1936. With Dirc Coster he edited the magazine De Stem from 1937 until 1941. His work was less expressionistic and more traditional than that of his contemporaries. During the War he resisted a move to the Kultuurkamer, the German institution of approved art, and was imprisoned, an experience that made his poetry temporarily more passionate. |
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