Gerrit Kouwenaar

Gerrit Kouwenaar (9 August 1923 – 4 September 2014) was a Dutch journalist, translator, poet and prose writer.

Biography Kouwenaar was born in Amsterdam, North Holland. In the early 1940s, during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, he wrote various clandestine publications (the first in 1941), and worked for the illegal newspaper Parade der Profeten. He was arrested for this and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Kouwenaar worked for magazines and newspapers such as Vrij Nederland, and Het Vrije Volk. Kouwenaar was awarded the Martinus Nijhoff Prize in 1967 for his translation work. In 2009, the Society of Dutch Literature named Kouwenaar the recipient of its annual honor.

Gerrit Kouwenaar's older brother was the painter and poet David Kouwenaar (1921–2011). Kouwenaar died on 4 September 2014 in Amsterdam, aged 91.