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Kees Fens
Kees Fens (18 October 1929 in Amsterdam – 14 June 2008) was a Dutch writer, essayist and literary critic.
Fens received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1990. In 1999 he received the Laurens Janszoon Costerprijs.
Awards.
- 1986: Frans Erens Award
- 1990: The P. C. Hooft Award
External links.
- "Kees Fens – 1929" – Digital library for Dutch literature
- "INGANGEN OP FENS" – bibliografie van krantenartikelen van Kees Fens 1954 tot 2008
Rotterdam) as Slauerhoff was in the nursing home in Hilversum, where he would die of malaria and tuberculosis on 5 October 1936. The book was reprinted in 1937 and 1954 (edited by Kees Lekkerkerker), and then again in 1985 for Nijgh & Van Ditmar's edition of Slauerhoff's poetry in individual volumes.
Critical responses.
Critic Kees Fens, in 1996, remembered that "Een eerlijk zeemansgraf" was, for him, the most engrossing of Slauerhoff's poems in part because it sketched a sailor's life