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Gerrit Komrij
Dutch writer.
Born March 30th, 1944 in Winterswijk. [ref]
Died July 5th, 2012 at 68 years old in Amsterdam. [ref]
Occupations
columnist, journalist, linguist, literary critic, playwright, poet, prose, translator, writer
Website
Wikipedia
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. Arthur Schopenhauer