Author · Netherlands
Adriaan Roland Holst
Died in 1976
Adriaan Roland Holst was born in Amsterdam on 23 May 1888, the nephew of the painter Richard Roland Holst and the poet Henriette Roland Holst. Brought up in Hilversum, he attended courses in Lausanne for eight months, then left in 1908 for Oxford, where he discovered Celtic myths. Settled in 1921 in Bergen, near the sea, he had to go into hiding during the occupation for having refused to join the Chamber of Culture. Nicknamed the prince of Dutch poets, winner of the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1948, he died in Bergen on 5 August 1976.
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- PoetryEen winter aan zeeAdriaan Roland Holst · 1937not translated into EnglishLiterature