Hoekstra, Han G.
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Birthname | Hendricus Gerard Hoekstra | ||||
born on | 4 September 1906 at 12:30 (= 12:30 PM ) | ||||
Place | Den Haag, Netherlands, 52n05, 4e19 | ||||
Timezone | LST m4e53 (is standard time) | ||||
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Han G. Hoekstra (At right, with Piet Esser, 1957)
photo: Joop van Bilsen (ANEFO), license cc-by-sa-3.0
photo: Joop van Bilsen (ANEFO), license cc-by-sa-3.0
Biography
Dutch poet, best known for his children's literature.
Hoekstra won numerous awards throughout his career, including the 1972 Constantijn Huygens Prize, an annual Dutch literary award.
He died on 15 April 1988, age 81, in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield submitted birth certificate n° 4833 from the Den Haag archives: "des namiddags ten half een uur" (twelve-thirty in the afternoon).
Categories
- Vocation : Writers : Children's literature
- Vocation : Writers : Poet
- Notable : Awards : Vocational award