Pierre Kemp

Pierre Kemp (1 December 1886 – 21 July 1967) was a Dutch poet and painter, the recipient of the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1956 and the P. C. Hooft Award in 1958. His younger brother was the writer Mathias Kemp.

Kemp was born in Maastricht and died there in 1967. In Limburg, the province where he was born, people made fun of his surname; in several dialects of Dutch and the regional Limburgian language, 'kemp' (as and general Dutch ) is the colloquial term for marijuana.

Works

1914 - Het wondere lied 1916 - De bruid der onbekende zee en andere gedichten 1925 - Limburgs Sagenboek 1928 - Carmina Matrimonalia 1934 - Stabielen en passanten 1935 - Zuster Beatrijs 1938 - Fugitieven en constanten 1940 - Transitieven en immobielen 1946 - Pacific 1946 - Standard-book of classic blacks 1947 - Phototropen en noctophilen 1949 - Forensen voor Cythère en andere gedichten 1956 - Engelse verfdoos 1958 - Vijf families en één poederblauw 1959 - Emeritaat 1959 - Garden, 36, 22, 36 inches 1960 - Les Folies Maestrichtoises 1961 - De incomplete luisteraar 1961 - Au Pays du Tendre mosan 1965 - Perzische suite voor Dr. E.F. Tijdens 1976 - Verzameld werk