Hans Faverey

Hans Antonius Faverey (14 September 1933, in Paramaribo – 8 July 1990, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch poet of Surinamese descent. Besides being a poet, he was a lecturer at the psychology department of the Universiteit Leiden.

Biography Faverey was born in Suriname, but moved to the Netherlands in 1939 where he graduated from the University of Amsterdam, and was a psychologist by profession. In 1959 he married the poet Lela Zeckovic, and in 1965 started to work at the University of Leiden as a lecturer.

In 1977, Faverey published Chrysanten, Roeiers for which he was awarded the Jan Campert Prize. He is buried at Zorgvlied cemetery.

Honors and awards 1969 – Amsterdam Poetry Award for Gedichten 1977 – Jan Campert Award for Chrysanten, roeiers 1990 – Constantijn Huygens Prize for his entire oeuvre