Pierre Kemp
Illustration — Portrait of Pierre Kemp by Hub. Levigne Pierre Kemp (1 December 1886 – 21 July 1967) was a Dutch poet and painter, the recipient of the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1956 and the P. Hooft Award in 1958. His younger brother was the writer Mathias Kemp.
Also recorded as Petrus Johannes Kemp · W. Maasburg · Robert Ree
Pierre Kemp
Literatuurmuseum, K 02902 III 004, NLMD02 K 02902 III 004] · Public domain
- Died
- 1967. · Maastricht.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands.
- Occupation
- poet, writer and painter.
- Honours
- Poetry Prize of the Municipality of Amsterdam, Constantijn Huygens Prize, P.C. Hooft Award and Cultural award of Limburg.
- Languages
- Dutch.
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In Limburg, the province where he was born, people made fun of his surname; in several dialects of Dutch and the regional Limburgian language, 'kemp' (as li and general Dutch nl) is the colloquial term for marijuana.
The recorded working language is Dutch. Places of work recorded in the authority are Maastricht. Work by Pierre Kemp is recorded in the collections of Bonnefanten Museum and Maastricht University Library. Distinctions recorded are Poetry Prize of the Municipality of Amsterdam, Constantijn Huygens Prize, P.C. Hooft Award and Cultural award of Limburg.
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Pierre Kemp, born on 1 December 1886 in Maastricht, Netherlands and died on 21 July 1967 in Maastricht, Netherlands, is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Both events are recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
• Illustration — Kemp's poem Voorjaar (in Warder) • Illustration — Drawing by Pierre Kemp • 1914 - Het wondere lied • 1916 - De bruid der onbekende zee en andere gedichten • 1925 - Limburgs Sagenboek • 1928 - Carmina Matrimonalia • 1934 - Stabielen en passanten • 1935 - Zuster Beatrijs • 1938 - Fugitieven en constanten • 1940 - Transitieven en immobielen • 1946 - Pacific • 1946 - Standard-book of classic blacks • 1947 - Phototropen en noctophilen • 1949 - Forensen voor Cythère en andere gedichten • 1956 - Engelse verfdoos • 1958 - Vijf families en één poederblauw • 1959 - Emeritaat • 1959 - Garden, 36, 22, 36 inches • 1960 - Les Folies Maestrichtoises • 1961 - De incomplete luisteraar • 1961 - Au Pays du Tendre mosan • 1965 - Perzische suite voor Dr. E.F. Tijdens • 1976 - Verzameld werk
Omschrijving: Pierre Kemp (1886 - 1967) Nederlands dichter. In 1956 ontvangt hij de Constantijn Huygensprijs voor zijn gehele oeuvre. Kemp is ook een verdienstelijk kunstschilder.
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- “Pierre Kemp”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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