Gerwin van der Werf (born June 13, 1969 in

De Meern De Meern () is an urbanized village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Utrecht, and is located at 6 km west of the inner city of this town. Before 2001 the villages De Meern, Vleuten and Haarzuilens formed a ...

) is a Dutch author of novels, songwriter and instrumentalist. In April 2010 his first novel, 'de Gewapende Man,' was published by Uitgeverij Contact. In January 2010, his poem 'Misbruik' won the first prize in the Dutch Turing National Poetry Contest, a prestigious Dutch poetry contest. Gerwin van der Werf plays in the Dutch band 'The New Beetles', and has composed several songs.

Early life and education

Gerwin van der Werf was born in

and raised in

Elburg Elburg () is a municipality and a city in the province of Gelderland, Netherlands. History There is evidence of a Neolithic settlement at Elburg consisting of stone tools and pottery shards. From Roman times there are names and shards of earthenw ...

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

, the youngest of two children. He studied

musicology Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

at the University of

Utrecht Utrecht ( , , ) is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fourth-largest city and a List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the Provinces of the Netherlands, pro ...

and earned his

doctoral A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...

in 1994.

Career

* 2012 Longlist nomination for the prestigious Dutch 'Libris Literatuurprijs' * 2011 Novel 'Wild', publisher contact * 2010 First prize Dutch Turing National Poetry Contest * 2010 Novel 'De Gewapende Man, Contact' * 2009 Tweede Prijs Zomerverhalen Schrijven Magazine * 2008 Nomination '1000 woorden prijs' * 2008 Third prize Dutch Paper

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writing competition 'Mijn betere ik’ * 2008 First prize

Volkskrant ''de Volkskrant'' (; ''The People's Paper'') is a Dutch daily morning newspaper. Founded in 1919, it has a nationwide circulation of about 250,000. Formerly a leading centre-left Catholic broadsheet, ''de Volkskrant'' today is a medium-sized c ...

writing competition "Vakantiegeluk” * 2008 'Met woorden kan ik toveren' publicized in 'Mijn tweede

Van Dale ''Van Dale's Great Dictionary of the Dutch Language'' ( nl, Van Dale Groot woordenboek van de Nederlandse taal ), called ' for short, is the leading dictionary of the Dutch language. The latest edition was published in April 2022. History Van ...

Luisterwoordenboek' * 2008 First prize Trouw Schrijfwedstrijd "Een bekentenis” * 2008 Pika Don, new musical production (RLO) * 2006 Author 'Intro Muziek voor de Bovenbouw' (ThiemeMeulenhoff) * 1998–2007 Macbeth, Oedipus, West Side Story & 6 andere theaterproducties (RLO) * 1998 Antigone (Theater Imperium) * 1997 Hamlet (RLO) * 1996 Ten pieces for "New Belcanto",

Dordrecht Dordrecht (), historically known in English as Dordt (still colloquially used in Dutch, ) or Dort, is a city and municipality in the Western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. It is the province's fifth-largest city after R ...

* 1995 Belcanto Festival, opera pastiche (script, arrangements) * 1994 Doctoral musicology Utrecht * 1992 Composition-prize musicology

References

External links

*[van der Werf, Gerwin
"My homepage"
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