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
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. Samuel Johnson