Hanny Michaelis
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Jan Campert Prize 1966 to Hanny Michaelis
Hanny Michaelis (December 19, 1922 – June 11, 2007) was a Dutch poet.[1]
The daughter of Alfred Michaelis and Gonda Sara Swaab, both Jewish, she was born in Amsterdam.[1]
Her parents were sent to Sobibór in 1943[2] and never returned. She lived in hiding from 1942 to 1945.[3] After World War II, Michaelis worked for the Artistic Affairs department of the municipality of Amsterdam .[4]
In 1948, she married the writer Gerard Kornelis van het Reve; they separated in 1959.[1]
She was awarded the Anna Bijns Prize in 1996.[5]
Her work has a prevailing tone of melancholy, loneliness and despair, although her last collection of poems has a more vital tone to it and moments of humour.[4]
Michaelis died in Amsterdam at the age of 84.[1]
Poetry collections
- Klein voorspel (Little prelude) (1949)
- Water uit de rots (Water from the rock) (1957)
- Tegen de wind in (Against the wind) (1962)
- Onvoorzien (Unforeseen) (1966); received the Jan Campert Prize[1]
- De rots van Gibraltar {The Rock of Gibraltar) (1970)
- Wegdraven naar een nieuw Utopia (Running off toward a new Utopia) (1971)[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Michaelis, Hanny (1922-2007)". Online Dictionary of Dutch Women (in Dutch).
- ↑ "Hanny Michaelis". Poetry International Rotterdam.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wilson, Katharina M (1991). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Volume 1. p. 833. ISBN 0824085477.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Meijer, Maaike. "Crushed. by. a. Malevolent. God: Hanny. Michaelis, 1922-2007". In Bel, Jacqueline Bel; Vaessens, Thomas. Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1880-2010: An Anthology. pp. 115–19.
- ↑ "Hanny Michaelis at the Poetry International festival 2003". Poetry International Rotterdam.