Hagar Peeters
Hagar Peeters (born May 12, 1972 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch writer.
Life
Hagar Peeters is a daughter of the Dutch social scientist Herman Vuijsje (born 1946). She studied cultural studies and literature at the University of Utrecht and received her doctorate with a dissertation on the burglar Gerrit de Stotteraar.
Peeters started out as a rapper and in 1999 published her first volume of poetry, Genoeg gedicht over dehlede vandaag . Her second volume, Koffers Zeelucht , published in 2003, received both the JC Bloemprijs and the Jo Peters Poëzieprijs .
Her poems were set to music by the singers Herman van Veen , Wende Snijders and Martin Buitenhuis .
Her first novel Malva was published in 2015 . The novel deals with the fate of Malva Marina Trinidad Reyes (1934–1943), the "forgotten" daughter of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and his first wife Maria Hagenaar. The book won the Fintro Literature Prize in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Opzij Literature Prize . A German translation was published in 2018.
Works (selection)
- Genoeg poem about de lende vandaag . Amsterdam: Podium, 1999
- Gerrit de Stotteraar - biography van een boef . Amsterdam: Podium, 2001
- Nachtzwemmen . Amsterdam: Perdu, 2004
- Suitcase Zeelucht . Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2005
- Loper van light . Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2008
- Wasdom . Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2011
- Poems for Wich . Wich & De Vos, 2012
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Malva . Novel. Amsterdam: De bezige Bij, 2015 ISBN 9789023492665
- Malva . Novel. Translation of Arne Braun . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018 ISBN 978-3-8353-3341-3
Web links
- Oliver Junge: The stones of heaven . Review, in: FAZ, April 6, 2019, p. 10
- Literature by and about Hagar Peeters in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Hagar Peeters , at De Bezige Bij
- Hagar Peeters , at dbnl
- Hagar Peeters , at the Royal Library of the Netherlands (KB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See also nl: Gerrit de Stotteraar in the Dutch Wikipedia
- ↑ see also: Bernardo Reyes: El enigma de Malva Marina: la hija de Pablo Neruda . Santiago (Chile): RIL Editores, 2007 ISBN 978-9-5628-4567-0 . Reyes is a grandson of Neruda.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peeters, Hagar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |