Hugo Claus
Hugo Maurice Julien Claus was een Vlaams schrijver. Hij was een veelzijdig kunstenaar: romancier, dichter, toneelschrijver, schilder en filmregisseur.
Toen hij opteerde voor euthanasie (legaal in België) veroorzaakte dit veel deining.
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Hugo Maurice Julien Claus was a leading Belgian author, writing primarily in Dutch. He was prominent as a novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director.
His death by euthanasia, which is legal in Belgium, led to considerable controversy.
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Willem Elsschot
Willem Elsschot is het pseudoniem van Alfonsus Josephus de Ridder, een Vlaamse dichter en schrijver.
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Willem Elsschot is the pseudonym of Alfonsus Josephus de Ridder, a Flemish poet and writer.
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Harry Mulisch
Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch along with W.F. Hermans and Gerard Reve, is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch postwar literature. He has written novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections.
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Mulisch was born in Haarlem and lived in Amsterdam since 1958, following the death of his father in 1957. Mulisch's father was from Austria-Hungary and emigrated to the Netherlands after the First World War. During the German occupation in World War II he worked for a German bank, which also dealt with confiscated Jewish assets. His mother, Alice Schwarz, was Jewish. Mulisch and his mother escaped transportation to a concentration camp thanks to Mulisch's father's collaboration with the Nazis. Due to the curious nature of his parents' -
Tommy Wieringa
Tommy Wieringa (born 20 May 1967 in Goor, Overijssel) is a Dutch writer. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2006 for his novel Joe Speedboat.
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Dimitri Verhulst
Na zijn debuut in 1999 schreef Dimitri Verhulst 13 boeken, romans, verhalen, novellen, poëzie en toneel. Zijn werk verschijnt in meer dan 20 talen over de hele wereld en hij wordt gezien als een van de grote schrijvers uit de Lage Landen. De klassieker De helaasheid der dingen werd bekroond met de Gouden Uil Publieksprijs, met Godverdomse dagen op een bol won hij de Libris Literatuurprijs. Zijn laatste, De laatkomer, verkocht binnen een half jaar meer dan 75 000 exemplaren, wordt verfilmd en over de hele wereld vertaald.
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Cyriel Buysse
Gustave Emile Cyril (Cyril) - Baron - Buysse was a Flemish naturalist writer. He received the Driejaarlijkse Staatsprijs voor verhalend proza in 1918. Rosalie Loveling en Virginie Loveling were his aunts.
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Cyrillus Gustave Emile (Cyriel) - baron - Buysse was een Vlaams naturalistisch schrijver. Hij ontving de Driejaarlijkse Staatsprijs voor verhalend proza in 1918. Rosalie Loveling en Virginie Loveling waren zijn tantes.
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Jeroen Brouwers
Jeroen Brouwers was a Dutch journalist and writer.
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From 1964 to 1976 Brouwers worked as an editor at Manteau publishers in Brussels. In 1964 he made his literary debut with Het mes op de keel (The Knife to the Throat).
He won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 1989 for De zondvloed, and in 1995 the Prix Femina for International works for his book Bezonken rood (Sunken Red). In 2007 he refused the Dutch Literature Prize (Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren) - the highest literary accolade in the Dutch-speaking world - because he considered the prize money of €16,000 too low for all his work. -
J. Bernlef
Bernlef (previously J. Bernlef) is the pseudonym of Dutch writer, poet, and translator Hendrik Jan Marsman. He occasionally used the nom de plume: Henk Bernlef.
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Between 1959 and 2012 Bernlef wrote a large number of novels, stories and poems. Amongst others he received the Constantijn Huygens prijs (1984), the AKO Literatuurprijs (1987) and the PC Hooftprijs (1994). His work is characterized by a sober language and an unflagging fascination with the workings of the human memory. His most famous novel is Hersenschimmen (1984) and describes the process of dementia from the point of view of the sufferer, Maarten Klein. (Source: de Volkskrant 29/10/2012) -
Tom Lanoye
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Tom Lanoye (his name is pronounced the French way: /lanwa/) was born August 27, 1958 in the Belgian city Sint Niklaas. He is a novelist, poet, columnist, screenwriter and playwright. His literary work has been published and/or performed in over fifteen languages. Lanoye lives and works in Antwerp (Belgium) and Cape Town (South Africa).
Lanoye is not only a writer, but also an entrepreneur. As the youngest son of a butcher, he self-published his first work. In his own words, 'Just like all the punk bands did in those days: out of dissatisfaction with the existing structures, and to learn the trade from -
F. Bordewijk
Ferdinand Bordewijk was born in Amsterdam and studied law in Leiden. After graduation he worked at a Rotterdam law firm.
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His first published work was a volume of poetry titled Paddestoelen ("Mushrooms") under the pen-name Ton Ven. It was not particularly well received.
His breakthrough came with the short novels Blokken ("Blocks", 1931), Knorrende Beesten ("Growling Animals", 1933) and Bint (1934), and two longer works Rood paleis ("Red Palace", 1936) and Karakter ("Character", 1938).
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Jan Wolkers
Jan Hendrik Wolkers was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter.
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Wolkers is considered one of the "Great Four" writers of post-World War II Dutch literature, along with Willem Frederik Hermans, Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve (the latter authors are also known as the "Great Three"). He became noted in the 1960s mainly for his strikingly direct descriptions of sex.
His 1969 novel Turks Fruit was translated into ten different languages and published in English as Turkish Delight. It was also made into a highly successful movie, the Paul Verhoeven-directed Turks Fruit (1972) which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and in 1999 won the award for Best Dutch Film of the Century.
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Willem Frederik Hermans
Willem Frederik Hermans is one of the greatest post-war Dutch authors. Before devoting his entire life to writing, Hermans had been teaching Physical Geography at the University of Groningen for many years. He had already started writing and publishing in magazines at a young age. His polemic and provocative style led to a court case as early as 1952. His caustic pieces were compiled in Mandarijnen op zwavelzuur (Mandarines in Sulphuric Acid, 1963), which was reprinted with additions a number of times. It is Hermans’s belief that in order to survive people have to create their own reality. It is inevitable that all these experiences of reality will collide. Language is essential to create order out of chaos and plays an important role in th
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Hella S. Haasse
Hella S. Haasse (1918 - 2011) was born in Batavia, modern-day Jakarta. She moved to the Netherlands after secondary school. In 1945 she debuted with a collection of poems, entitled Stroomversnelling (Momentum). She made her name three years later with the novella given out to mark the Dutch Book Week, Oeroeg (The Black Lake, 1948). As with much of her work, this tale of the friendship between a Dutch and an Indonesian boy has gained the status of a classic in the Netherlands. Titles such as Het woud der verwachting (In a Dark Wood Wandering, 1949), Een nieuwer testament (Threshold of Fire, 1966) and Mevrouw Bentinck of Onverenigbaarheid van karakter (Mrs Bentinck or Irreconcilable in Character, 1978) have been greatly enjoyed by several gen
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Harry Mulisch
Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch along with W.F. Hermans and Gerard Reve, is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch postwar literature. He has written novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections.
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Mulisch was born in Haarlem and lived in Amsterdam since 1958, following the death of his father in 1957. Mulisch's father was from Austria-Hungary and emigrated to the Netherlands after the First World War. During the German occupation in World War II he worked for a German bank, which also dealt with confiscated Jewish assets. His mother, Alice Schwarz, was Jewish. Mulisch and his mother escaped transportation to a concentration camp thanks to Mulisch's father's collaboration with the Nazis. Due to the curious nature of his parents' -
Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi is the author of novels (including The Buddha of Suburbia, The Black Album and Intimacy), story collections (Love in a Blue Time, Midnight All Day, The Body), plays (including Outskirts, Borderline and Sleep With Me), and screenplays (including My Beautiful Laundrette, My Son the Fanatic and Venus). Among his other publications are the collection of essays Dreaming and Scheming, The Word and the Bomb and the memoir My Ear at His Heart.
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Kureishi was born in London to a Pakistani father and an English mother. His father, Rafiushan, was from a wealthy Madras family, most of whose members moved to Pakistan after the Partition of India in 1947. He came to Britain to study law but soon abandoned his studies. After meeting and marryi -
Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
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After his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), Rushdie became the subject of several assassination attempts and death threats, including a fatwa calling for his death issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran. In total, 20 countries bann -
Zadie Smith
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Cyriel Buysse
Gustave Emile Cyril (Cyril) - Baron - Buysse was a Flemish naturalist writer. He received the Driejaarlijkse Staatsprijs voor verhalend proza in 1918. Rosalie Loveling en Virginie Loveling were his aunts.
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Cyrillus Gustave Emile (Cyriel) - baron - Buysse was een Vlaams naturalistisch schrijver. Hij ontving de Driejaarlijkse Staatsprijs voor verhalend proza in 1918. Rosalie Loveling en Virginie Loveling waren zijn tantes.
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Emiliano Acosta
Emiliano Acosta is hoofddocent wijsbegeerte aan de Vrije Universiteit Brussel, gastdocent aan de Universiteit Gent en de Università di Catania en alumnus van de Jonge Academie van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten. Hij is auteur van Schiller versus Fichte (2011) en Plato lezen (2020).
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F. Bordewijk
Ferdinand Bordewijk was born in Amsterdam and studied law in Leiden. After graduation he worked at a Rotterdam law firm.
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His first published work was a volume of poetry titled Paddestoelen ("Mushrooms") under the pen-name Ton Ven. It was not particularly well received.
His breakthrough came with the short novels Blokken ("Blocks", 1931), Knorrende Beesten ("Growling Animals", 1933) and Bint (1934), and two longer works Rood paleis ("Red Palace", 1936) and Karakter ("Character", 1938).
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Charles Palliser
Charles Palliser (born December 11, 1947) is an American-born, British-based novelist. He is the elder brother of the late author and freelance journalist Marcus Palliser.
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Born in New England, Palliser is an American citizen, but has lived in the United Kingdom since the age of three. He attended Oxford University in 1967 to read English Language and Literature, and took a First in June 1970. He was awarded the B. Litt. in 1975 for a dissertation on Modernist fiction.
From 1974 until 1990, Palliser was a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He was the first Deputy Editor of The Literary Review when it was founded in 1979. He taught creative writing during the Spring semester of 1986 at Rutgers Uni -
Safae el Khannoussi
Safae el Khannoussi (1994) is schrijver en promovendus aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Oroppa werd bekroond met de Boon en de Libris Literatuur Prijs.
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Lucas Rijneveld
Lucas Rijneveld (b. 1991) grew up in a Reformed farming family in North Brabant before moving to Utrecht. One of the greatest new voices in Dutch literature, his first poetry collection, Kalfsvlies, was awarded the C. Buddingh' Prize for best poetry debut in 2015, with the newspaper de Volkskrant naming him literary talent of the year. In 2018, Atlas Contact published his first novel, De avond is ongemak (The Discomfort of Evening), which won the prestigious ANV Debut Prize and was a national bestseller. The UK edition won the Booker International Prize 2020. Alongside his writing career, Rijneveld works on a dairy farm.
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Thomas Heerma van Voss
Thomas Bram Heerma van Voss is een Nederlands schrijver. Hij is de zoon van het schrijvende echtpaar Arend Jan Heerma van Voss en Christien Brinkgreve en de broer van schrijver Daan Heerma van Voss.
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Hubert Lampo
Hubert Léon Lampo was een Vlaamse schrijver.
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Gerard Reve
Gerard Reve was een Nederlands schrijver en dichter. Samen met Harry Mulisch en W.F. Hermans wordt hij gerekend tot De Grote Drie: de drie belangrijkste Nederlandse schrijvers van na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Tot zijn bekendste werken behoren De avonden (roman uit 1947) en Werther Nieland (novelle uit 1949). Tot 1973 schreef Reve onder zijn oorspronkelijke naam Gerard Kornelis van het Reve, maar vereenvoudigde deze later tot Gerard Reve. Hij debuteerde in 1946 in het tijdschrift Criterium met de novelle De ondergang van de familie Boslowits, een jaar later verscheen de klassieker De avonden. Reve zou uiteindelijk een enorm oeuvre voortbrengen, waaronder een groot aantal ‘brievenboeken’. In 1969 ontving Reve de P.C. Hooftprijs en in 2001 werd
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Paul de Wispelaere
Paul de Wispelaere was een Vlaamse schrijver, criticus en hoogleraar Nederlandse letterkunde.
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Paul de Wispelaere was a Flemish writer, critic and professor of Dutch literature.
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Louis Paul Boon
Lodewijk Paul Albrecht (Louis Paul) Boon was een Vlaams schrijver, dichter en kunstschilder.
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Lodewijk Paul Albrecht (Louis Paul) Boon was a Flemish writer, poet and painter.
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Felix Timmermans
Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans was een Vlaamse schrijver en dichter. Hij was de vader van Lia Timmermans.
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Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans was a Flemish writer and poet. He was the father of Lia Timmermans
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Hildebrand
Pseudonym of Nicolaas Beets
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Hildebrand is het pseudoniem waaronder schrijver, dichter en predikant Nicolaas Beets o.m. zijn bekendste werk de ‘Camera Obscura’ schreef, waarvan de eerste versie verscheen in 1839. Hij studeerde theologie in Leiden en promoveerde er in 1839. Van 1840 tot 1853 was hij predikant te Heemstede. In 1854 werd hij predikant in Utrecht, waar hij van 1874 tot 1884 hoogleraar in de theologie was. -
Martinus Nijhoff
Martinus Nijhoff (Den Haag, 20 april 1894 – aldaar, 26 januari 1953) was een Nederlandse dichter, toneelschrijver, vertaler en essayist.
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Nijhoff werd in 1894 in Den Haag geboren als zoon van de uitgever Wouter Nijhoff en Johanna Alida Seijn. Zijn grootvader Martinus Nijhoff was de stichter van de Haagse uitgeverij Nijhoff en een van de oprichters van het liberale dagblad Het Vaderland. Hij bezocht vanaf zijn twaalfde het Gymnasium Haganum aan de Laan van Meerdervoort, waar hij bevriend raakte met Victor van Vriesland, met wie hij Franse en Engelse literatuur las.
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Erwin Mortier
Erwin Mortier is een Vlaamse dichter en schrijver.
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Paul van Ostaijen
Leopold Andreas 'Paul' van Ostaijen was a Flemish poet and writer who wrote his most important works in the post-World War I era.
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Elvis Peeters
Elvis Peeters, pseudoniem van Jos Verlooy, is een Vlaamse zanger en schrijver.
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Marnix Gijsen
Marnix Gijsen was de schrijversnaam van Joannes Alphonsius Albertus Goris, een Vlaams schrijver. Zijn pseudoniem komt van Marnix van Sint Aldegonde en de naam van zijn moeder, Gijsen.
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In 1926 ontving hij de August Beernaertprijs voor Het huis.
Marnix Gijsen was the pen name of Joannes Alphonsius Albertus Goris, a Flemish writer. His pseudonym relates to Marnix van Sint Aldegonde and the surname of his mother (Gijsen).
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Anna Bijns
De vader van Anna Bijns (1493-1575), Jan Bijns, was kousen- (of eigenlijk broeken-)maker en wellicht ook rederijker. Anna bracht haar jeugd door in het huis ‘De Cleyn Wolvinne’ aan de Grote Markt (nu nummer 46). Ze had een zuster, Margriete (geboren in 1495) en een broer, Marten (geboren in 1497). Na het overlijden van vader Bijns in 1516 verkocht Anna’s moeder, Lijsbeth Voochs, het huis aan de Grote Markt om Marten en Margriete hun erfdeel te kunnen uitbetalen. Marten en Anna betrokken samen met hun moeder vervolgens het huis ‘De Patiencie’ in de Keizerstraat. Marten opende er een schooltje waar ook Anna les gaf.
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Maurice Gilliams
Maurice Guillaume Rosalie Gilliams was een Vlaamse schrijver, dichter en essayist.
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Maurice Gilliams was a Flemish writer and poet.
He was a typograph and a lecturer on typography at the Vakschool voor Kunstambachten in Antwerp. From 1947 until his death in 1982 he became a member of the Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde. From 1960 until 1976 he held the position of secretary of the academy in Ghent.
His writings are autobiographical, and generally concern his failed marriage and his lost youth. He wrote both poems and prose. His most rekno -
Simon Vestdijk
Born in the small town of Harlingen, Vestdijk studied medicine in Amsterdam, but turned to literature after a few years as a doctor. He became one of the most important 20th-century writers in the Netherlands. His prolificity as a novelist was legendary, but he was at least as important as an essayist on e.g., literature, art, music and religion. He also wrote poetry and short stories. His work has been translated into most Western European languages.
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Marten Toonder
Marten Toonder (2 May 1912 – 27 July 2005) was a Dutch comic strip creator. He was probably the most successful comic artist in the Netherlands and had a great influence on the Dutch language by introducing new words and expressions. He is most famous for his series Tom Puss and Panda.
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Hermine Heijermans
Hermine Marie Leendert Heijermans (1902-1983) was a Dutch stage actress, author and politician. She was the daughter of playwright Herman Heijermans and, under the name Minny Heijermans, performed in her father's company, the Tooneelvereeniging, from 1921 to 1938. After the Second World War she remained active as a comedian. Heijermans is best remembered as an author: she wrote several novels and a biography about her father. In 1976 she edited the ‘Boekenweekgeschenk’ titled “Snikken en smartlapjes”. In the 1960s and ’70s she was a columnist for Sekstant, the magazine of the NVSH. Heijermans was also member of the Amsterdam city council on behalf of the CPN.
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C. Buddingh'
Cornelis Buddingh' (roepnaam: Kees) was een Nederlands dichter, prozaïst en vertaler. Hij dankt zijn bekendheid vooral aan de gedichten De blauwbilgorgel (1943) en Pluk de Dag (1966).
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Buddingh's roepnaam was Kees, geschreven met een K. "Een heleboel mensen kunnen, vreemd genoeg, niet tegen initialen in schrijversnamen. Dat je als C. Buddingh' publiceert nemen ze - bewust of onbewust - ergens niet: die 'C' moet en zal een naam worden. En zo prijk je - zonder dat je het zelf wilt - op de meest uiteenlopende plaatsen als 'Cees', een voornaam die ik zelf wel als laatste zou uitkiezen." Buddingh' maakte zelf altijd onderscheid tussen de persoonsnaam Cornelis (Kees) Buddingh' en de auteursnaam C. Buddingh'.
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Hans Faverey
Hans Faverey (1933-1990) werd geboren in Paramaribo en kwam in 1939 naar Nederland. Aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam studeerde hij psychologie. In 1959 trad hij in het huwelijk met de dichteres Lela Zeckovic. Sinds 1965 was hij als klinisch psycholoog verbonden aan de Universiteit Leiden. Hans Faverey begon gedichten te schrijven in de hoogste klassen van het Amsterdams Lyceum, toen hij via de stimulerende lessen van F. Lulofs kennis had gemaakt met de moderne Nederlandstalige poëzie.
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Zijn ontdekking van de poëzie van Paul van Ostaijen was een belangrijk moment, zoals hij in een van zijn schaarse interviews gezegd heeft. In de loop van de jaren vijftig verdiepte hij zich in de moderne Nederlandse poëzie, met name die van Kouwenaar, alsook i -