Eva Gerlach
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Eva Gerlach (born 9 April 1948) is a Dutch poet. She also writes under the name Margaret Dijkstra.
Biography
She was born on 9 April 1948 in Amsterdam.{{cite web |url=http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=gerl001 |title=Eva Gerlach |publisher=Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren |language=nl}} In 1979, she published her first collection of poetry Verder geen leed (No Further Distress) in 1979. It was awarded the {{Interlanguage link multi|Lucy B. and C.W. van der Hoogt Prize|nl|3=Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogtprijs}} in 1981. In 2000, she received the P. C. Hooft Award for her work.{{cite web |url=http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/8148/6/Eva-Gerlach |title=Eva Gerlach |publisher=Poetry International Rotterdam |access-date=2015-09-30 |archive-date=2019-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212070745/https://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/8148/6/Eva-Gerlach |url-status=usurped }} In 1999 she won the Nienke van Hichtum-prijs for Hee meneer Eland.
Her work has appeared in various literary magazines and English translations of her poetry were included in the anthologies Women Writing in Dutch (1994) and Turning Tides (1994).{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-TMhtk5AUYC&pg=PA119 |title=Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing |page=119 |last=Miller |first=Jane Eldridge |year=2001 |isbn=0415159806}}
In 2016 she won the Awater Poëzieprijs for her work Ontsnappingen.{{cite web|url=http://www.letterenfonds.nl/nl/entry/1561/awater-poezieprijs-naar-eva-gerlach|title=Awater Poëzieprijs naar Eva Gerlach|date=1 February 2017|publisher=Nederlands Letterenfonds|accessdate=22 February 2019|archive-date=22 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222133935/http://www.letterenfonds.nl/nl/entry/1561/awater-poezieprijs-naar-eva-gerlach|language=Dutch|url-status=live}}
Selected works
- Dochter (Daughter), poetry (1984)
- Domicilie (Domicile), poetry (1987)
- De kracht van verlamming (The power of paralysis), poetry (1988)
- Wat zoekraakt (What is lost), poetry (1994), received the Jan Campert Prize{{cite web |url=http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_low001200001_01/_low001200001_01_0053.php |title=How Can You Capture an Elusive Reality? The Poetry of Eva Gerlach |publisher=Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren}}
- Hee meneer Eland, children's poetry (1998, received Nienke van Hichtum-prijs)
- Oog in oog in oog in oog (Eye to Eye to Eye to Eye), children's poetry (2001)
- Situaties (Situations) (2006)
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Category:20th-century Dutch poets
Category:21st-century Dutch poets
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Category:21st-century pseudonymous writers
Category:Pseudonymous women writers
Category:Writers from Amsterdam
Category:Nienke van Hichtum Prize winners
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