What is Gerrit Kouwenaar?
[[File:Gerrit Kouwenaar.jpg|thumb|Kouwenaar in November 1978.]] '''Gerrit Kouwenaar''' (9 August 1923 &ndash; 4 September 2014) was a [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[journalist]], [[translator]], [[poet]] and [[prose]] [[writer]]. He began working in 1941. He was a member of the Dutch poetry group known as the [[Vijftigers]]. He worked for [[magazine]]s and [[newspaper]]s such as ''[[Vrij Nederland]]'', ''[[De Waarheid]]'' and ''[[Het Vrije Volk]]''. During the mid-1940s, he worked for the illegal newspaper ''[[Parade der Profeten]]''. He was arrested for this and sentenced to half a year in [[jail]]. In 1970, he was given the [[P. C. Hooft Award]]. Kouwenaar was born in [[Amsterdam]], [[North Holland]]. He was a resistance fighter during [[World War II]]. The [[painter]] and poet David Kouwenaar (1921&ndash;2011) was an older brother his. He retired in 2008. Kouwenaar died on 4 September 2014 in Amsterdam, aged 91.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/3737812/2014/09/04/Dichter-Gerrit-Kouwenaar-overleden.dhtml|title=Dichter Gerrit Kouwenaar overleden|publisher=[[Reuters]]|work=[[de Volkskrant]]|date=4 September 2014|accessdate=13 September 2014|language=Dutch}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * [http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=kouw002 Gerrit Kouwenaar] at the [http://www.dbnl.org/ Digital Library of Dutch Literature website] {{Small|{{in lang|nl}}}} {{Bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kouwenaar, Gerrit}} [[Category:1923 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in the Netherlands]] [[Category:Dutch journalists]] [[Category:Dutch people of World War II]] [[Category:Dutch poets]] [[Category:Prisoners]] [[Category:Dutch translators]] [[Category:Writers from Amsterdam]]