Rutger Kopland (born Rudi van den Hoofdakker) (4 August 1934,

Goor Goor () is a city about 20 km west of Enschede in the Netherlands, Dutch province of Overijssel. It received City rights in the Netherlands, city rights in 1263. Goor was a separate municipality until 2001, when it became a part of Hof van T ...

– 11 July 2012,

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) was a Dutch poet who gained great popularity for his "accessible, thoughtful style, his mild irony, his sentimentality" and whose collections sold over 200,000 copies.

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