biography
| name: |
Slauerhoff, Jan Jacob
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pronunciation:
[slowerhof]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1936)
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| biography:
| Poet and novelist, born in Leeuwarden, N Netherlands. He studied medicine in Amsterdam and, working as a ship's surgeon, visited Indonesia, China, Japan, Africa, and South America. He was a grim romanticist, longing for the sea and for the past, searching for a home but never able to settle down. His work expresses the restless, pessimistic nature of the poète maudit. Considered one of the best Dutch poets of the 20th-c, he is also of international importance. |
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