Global InformationCornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager information
Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandragere | |
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| Born | Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager 26 August 1935 Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Died | 18 March 1992 (aged 56) Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Pen name | C.B. Vaandrager ; Vaan |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | Dutch |
| Genre | Novels, short stories, poems, letters, speeches |
| Years active | 1950s–1992 |
| Notable awards | Anna Blaman Prijs (1981) |
| Partner | Hetty Smink[1] |
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Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager (26 August 1935, in Rotterdam – 18 March 1992, in Rotterdam), who generally published with only his initials as C. B. Vaandrager, was a Dutch writer and poet who lived and worked in Rotterdam. Later he came to be known simply by the shortened version of his name as Vaan.
Vaandrager was a leading writer, along with Hans Sleutelaar and Armando, in the group of experimental Dutch writers called De Zestigers (The Sixtiers),[2] who were preceded by De Vijftigers.
- ^ Frans Vogel. "Vaandrager in Vogel-vlucht," In: Passionate Magazine. Vol. 3, 1996. p. 12-26.
- ^ Theo Hermans. A Literary History of the Low Countries. 2009. p. 603.