Gabriël Smit

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Gabriël Smit (1966)

Gabriël Wijnand Smit (born February 25, 1910 in Utrecht , † May 23, 1981 in Laren ) was a Dutch poet and journalist .

Life

Smit published his first volume of poetry Voorspel in 1931 , this formed the beginning of about 30 volumes that he published over the next 50 years. Throughout his life he was a believer, whose faith was the main motif of his poems. In his works a desire to experience God's presence emerges in an open manner; later he turned to Mary poems and the psalms in particular . In 1933 he began his work as a journalist for the regional newspaper De Gooien Eemlander , where he worked until 1939. During this time (1934) he converted from the Old to the Roman Catholic Church . He then worked for the Utrechtsch Dagblad and De Linie as a literary critic.

From 1950 to 1960, as Godfried Bomans ' successor , Smit was head of the art department at the national Catholic daily de Volkskrant , which, since it appeared again after a four-year break during the Second World War , had established itself as the leading Catholic mouthpiece in the media. Smit regularly contributed poems to church festivals and thus decisively shaped de Volkskrant . In the first half of the 1960s he reported from Rome on the progress of the Second Vatican Council , the council becoming a decisive event in Smit's life. Many progressive forces within Catholicism, to which de Volkskrant also felt, initially had great hopes for the council, but felt great disappointment after its outcome. Smit broke with his church and resigned in 1969, a step that stood for many editors of the time, including his editor-in-chief van der Pluijm . He remained loyal to the newspaper, which now finally left its Catholic background behind and turned to the political left, until his retirement in 1975.

In addition to his journalistic and poetic work, Smit also translated works by other poets and was regularly represented on the juries of various literary prizes. He himself received rather small, local prizes, despite his success in his time, which was also based on an easily accessible language, he is well behind his predecessor Godfried Bomans in terms of popularity. This moved literarily in secular realms and was also often present on radio and television; Boman's works, unlike those of Smit, are still published today. Until the second half of the 1960s, however, Smit was an integral part of the Catholic pillar of the Netherlands and was described, for example, as the most important Marian poet the Netherlands had ever produced.

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literature

  • Joan Hemels: De emancipatie van een dagblad. Geschiedenis van de Volkskrant. Ambo, Baarn 1981. ISBN 90-263-0537-0
  • Frank de Vree: De metamorfose van een dagblad. A journalistieke is divorced from the Volkskrant. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam 1996. ISBN 90-290-5379-8

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Works

  • Voorspel , Luchtkastelen deel 9, Brussels / Maastricht 1931
  • Weerklank , Head - Nypels, Maastricht 1932
  • Requiem in memoriam matris , Stols, Brussels / Maastricht 1932
  • Christofoor , Marnix Pers, Amsterdam 1933
  • Het laatste gezicht , Rozenbeek en Venemans, Hilversum 1935
  • De priester, Ons Leekenspel, Bussum 1938
  • Maria-lof en other poems , Het Spectrum, Utrecht 1939
  • Angelus , Het Spectrum, Utrecht 1940
  • XL Psalms , Het Spectrum, Utrecht 1942
  • Tempore belli , Het Spectrum, Utrecht 1943
  • Sonnetten , Marnix Pers, Amsterdam 1944
  • Zeven Marialegenden , Het Spectrum, Utrecht 1945
  • Spiegelbeeld , Het Spectrum, Utrecht 1946
  • Roosjes uit de hemeltuin , De Fontein, Utrecht / Antwerp 1947
  • Fragment , Het Spectrum, Utrecht 1948
  • Ternauwernood , Het Spectrum, Utrecht 1951
  • Geboorte , Het Spectrum, Utrecht 1952
  • De psalmen , Het Spectrum, Utrecht 1952
  • Het jaar van de Heer , Het Spectrum, Utrecht 1955
  • Onderlinge verstandhouding (with Anton van Duinkerken and Michael van der Plas), Brand / Sheed & Ward, Bussum / Antwerp 1955
  • Ik geloof , Het Spectrum, Utrecht 1957
  • Dichterbij , Het Spectrum, Utrecht 1964
  • Variaties van Rande , Ambo, Baarn 1966
  • Op mijn woord , Ambo, Baarn 1968
  • Leven van poems. Verzamelde poëzie , Ambo, Baarn 1969
  • Psalms opnieuw , Ambo, Baarn 1972
  • Poems (collection) 1975
  • Weerlicht , Ambo, Baarn 1976
  • Beatrijs , Ambo, Baarn 1979
  • Evenbeeld , Ambo, Baarn 1981

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personal data
SURNAME Smit, Gabriël
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smit, Gabriël Wijnand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch journalist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1981
Place of death Laren , Netherlands