Hanny Michaelis

Hanny Michaelis (1966)

Hanny Michaelis (19 December 1922 – 11 June 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. ^ a b c d e "Michaelis, Hanny (1922-2007)". Online Dictionary of Dutch Women (in Dutch).
  2. ^ "Hanny Michaelis". Poetry International Rotterdam. Archived from the original on 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2014-11-06.
  3. ^ a b Wilson, Katharina M (1991). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Vol. 1. p. 833. ISBN 0824085477.
  4. ^ a b Meijer, Maaike (2010). "Crushed. by. a. Malevolent. God: Hanny. Michaelis, 1922-2007". In Bel, Jacqueline Bel; Vaessens, Thomas (eds.). Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1880-2010: An Anthology. pp. 115–19. ISBN 9789089641939.
  5. ^ "Hanny Michaelis at the Poetry International festival 2003". Poetry International Rotterdam. Archived from the original on 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2014-11-06.


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