Henk van der Waal

In this Dutch name, the surname is van der Waal, not Waal.

Henk van der Waal (born 1960) is a Dutch poet.

Henk van der Waal
Born	(1960-01-03) 3 January 1960 (age 65) Hilversum, Netherlands
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	Dutch
Notable awards	C. Buddingh'-prijs 1996 Ida Gerhardt Poëzieprijs 2012

Early life

Van der Waal studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.^[1]

Career

Van der Waal has worked as a journalist, a translator and as a teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.^[1]

In 1996, he won the C. Buddingh'-prijs for his debut poetry collection De windsels van de sfinx (1995).^[1][2] His second poetry collection Schuldsanering (2000) was nominated for the Paul Snoek-poëzieprijs. He was also nominated for the VSB-Poëzieprijs in 2004 for his poetry collection De aantochtster (2003).

In 2012, he won the Ida Gerhardt Poëzieprijs for his poetry collection Zelf worden.^[3] The collection was also nominated for the VSB-Poëzieprijs.

Van der Waal and Erik Lindner wrote the book De kunst van het dichten, a collection of essays and conversations with other poets, including Nachoem Wijnberg, Anneke Brassinga and Anne Vegter. Van der Waal also published Liefdesgeschiedenissen in 1991, a Dutch translation of the work Histoires d'amour (1983) by Bulgarian-French philosopher Julia Kristeva. He has also translated works of Maurice Blanchot, Paul Auster and Hans Faverey.

Awards

• 1996: C. Buddingh'-prijs, De windsels van de sfinx
• 2012: Ida Gerhardt Poëzieprijs, Zelf worden