Victor Emanuel van Vriesland (27 October 1892,

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– 29 October 1974,

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writer and critic.

Biography

He studied at the gymnasium in The Hague and then at the University of Dijon. He was literary and artistic journalist, editor of a weekly magazine. He received the

Constantijn Huygens Prize The Constantijn Huygens Prize (Dutch: ''Constantijn Huygens-prijs'') is a Dutch literary award.P. C. Hooft Award The P.C. Hooft Award (in Dutch: P.C. Hooft-prijs), inaugurated in 1948, is a Dutch-language literary lifetime-achievement award named after 17th-century Dutch poet and playwright Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft. The award is made annually. Background E ...

in 1960. He was the president of the Dutch Pen Club. From 1962 to 1965 van Vriesland was President of

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, the worldwide association of writers. Van Vriesland writes as easily in French as in his native language and likes even the refinement of sintaxe and prosody: Te souviendra t-il de mon nom, de ma tendresse? - Le vent qui bat ma fenetre sans cesse L'effacera.

Bibliography

* 1915 - ''De cultureele noodtoestand van het Joodsche volk'' * 1920 - ''Herman Hana'' * 1925 - ''Der verlorene Sohn'' (in German) * 1926 - ''Het afscheid van de wereld in drie dagen'' (published in 1953) * 1929 - ''Voorwaardelijk uitzicht'' * 1933 - ''Havenstad'' * 1935 - ''Herhalingsoefeningen'' * 1939 - ''De ring met de aquamarijn'' * 1939-1954 - ''Spiegel der Nederlandse poëzie'' * 1946 - ''Vooronderzoek'' * 1946 - ''Grondslag van verstandhouding'' (published in 1947) * 1949 - ''Drievoudig verweer'' * 1949 - ''Le vent se couche'' (in French) * 1952 - ''Vereenvoudigingen'' * 1954 - ''De onverzoenlijken'' * 1954 - ''Kortschrift'' * 1958 - ''Onderzoek en vertoog'' * 1959 - ''Tegengif'' * 1962 - ''Het werkelijkheidsgehalte in de West-Europese literatuur'' * 1968 - ''Verzamelde gedichten'' * 1972 - ''Bijbedoelingen''

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1892 births 1974 deaths Dutch male poets Writers from Haarlem Constantijn Huygens Prize winners P. C. Hooft Award winners 20th-century Dutch poets 20th-century Dutch male writers {{Netherlands-writer-stub Jean Rousselot. Dictionnaire de la poesie francaise contemporaine 1968, Auge, Guillon, Hollier -Larousse, Mooreau et Cie.-Librairie Larousse, Paris