Elly de Waard
She was born in Bergen and was educated at the Murmellius Gymnasium and the University of Amsterdam. From 1965 to 1984, she was a rock music critic for the Dutch daily newspaper de Volkskrant and the Dutch weekly magazine Vrij Nederland. She also served on a jury which awarded the Dutch Edison music awards in 1972.
Elly de Waard
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- 1940 · Bergen.
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- Kingdom of the Netherlands
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- poet · translator · writer
- Education
- International Writing Program
- Languages
- Dutch
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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).
• Luwte (Shelter) (1979) • Furie (Fury) (1981) • Strofen (1983) • Anna Bijns (1985) • Een wildernis van verbindingen (1986) • Sara (1987) • Onvoltooiing (1988) • Eenzang (1992) • Eenzang twee (1993) • Het zij (Or she) (1995) • Anderling (1998) • Zestig (2000)
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- 1.digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren. Elly de Waard.
- 2.Europa Publications. International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Taylor & Francis. 407. 2004. 185743269X.
- 3.Billboard. 49. December 16, 1972.
- 4.Meijer, Maaike. Dutch and Flemish Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology. Feminist Press at CUNY. 185. 1998. 1558611525.
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