Pem Sluijter[lower-alpha 1] (15 May 1939 – 18 December 2007) was a Dutch poet.
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Born | Petronella Eduarda Maria Rutgers-Sluijter (1939-05-15)15 May 1939 Middelburg, Netherlands |
Died | 18 December 2007(2007-12-18) (aged 68) The Hague |
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | Dutch |
Pem Sluijter was born in 1939 in Middelburg, Netherlands.
Sluijter worked between 1959 and 1963 as journalist at Het Parool.[1][2]
Sluijter made her debut at 58 years of age with poetry collection Roos is een bloem (1997). She won the C. Buddingh'-prijs for this debut.[1] Her second poetry collection Het licht van Attica was published in 2004.[1] Both of her publications were published by De Arbeiderspers.
Sluijter died in The Hague in December 2007.[1]
In 2018, her poem Nachtbraak was added to a wall in the Batjanstraat in The Hague, both in Dutch and translated into English.[2]
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