Elly de Waard

Elly de Waard (photo by Ben Kleyn)

Elly de Waard (born September 8, 1940) is a Dutch poet.[1]

She was born in Bergen[1] and was educated at the Murmellius Gymnasium and the University of Amsterdam.[2] From 1965 to 1984, she was a rock music critic for the Dutch daily newspaper de Volkskrant and the Dutch weekly magazine Vrij Nederland.[3] She also served on a jury which awarded the Dutch Edison music awards in 1972.[4] In 1978, de Waard published her first book of poems Afstand (Distance). She was a founding member of the Anna Bijns Foundation, which awards a prize to a Dutch female writer. She had a leading role in the group of women poets known as De Nieuwe Wilden (The New Savages).[3]

Selected works

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Elly de Waard" (in Dutch). digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren.
  2. Europa Publications (2004). International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. p. 407. ISBN 185743269X.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Meijer, Maaike; Eijsker, Erica; Peypers, Ankie; Prins, Yopie (1998). Dutch and Flemish Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology. p. 185. ISBN 1558611525.
  4. Billboard. December 16, 1972. p. 49.