Jan Jacob Slauerhoff

Jan Jacob Slauerhoff was born in Leeuwarden in 1898. Asthmatic and of fragile health all his life, he studied medicine and then became a ship's doctor, first for a company serving the Dutch East Indies, then on the Java-China-Japan line and, for the Royal Dutch Lloyd, to South America. In thirteen years, he published poems, short stories and novels nourished by the countries seen on his stopovers. Admired by Du Perron, Vestdijk and Roland Holst, and married from 1930 to 1935 to the dancer Darja Collin, he died in 1936.

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• PoetryEldoradoJan Jacob Slauerhoff · 1928not translated into EnglishLiterature