Frida Vogels
Frida Vogels (born 9 January 1930, in Soest) is a Dutch writer, known especially for her partly autobiographical trilogy De harde kern ("The hard core"), the second part of which was awarded the inaugural Libris Prize in 1994.[1][2] Vogels is noted for the close connection between her work and her life, as well as for her low profile: she did not appear at the presentation of the Libris Prize, and there are no photographs published of her.[3] Vogels lives in Bologna, Italy.
Career
[edit]Vogels' literary career began with De harde kern, on which she had been at work for four decades; the first volume was published in 1992. The Libris Prize for the second volume, published 1993, garnered her commercial and critical success; the third volume, a collection of poems, was published in 1994. Since then she has published eight of the sixteen planned volumes of her diaries, and in 2011 a booklet containing diary entries of Aunt Lucietta, an aunt of her husband.[4]
As an editor, Vogels selected texts by Dutch author Bert Weijde (1932-1986) for a posthumously published collection Onder het ijs ("Under the ice").[5] She has also inspired other authors: she and Weijde were friends of J. J. Voskuil, and she appears in his Bij nader inzien as Henriëtte Fagel;[3] conversely, Voskuil appears in De harde kern as Jacob.
Vogels also translates from Italian to Dutch, and has rendered works by Giacomo Debenedetti, Primo Levi, Cesare Pavese, and Salvatore Satta.
References
[edit]- ^ "Internet: Voorkeur". NRC Handelsblad. 8 May 2007. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
- ^ "Winnaar 1994". Libris Prize. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
- ^ a b Keikes, Andre (29 July 2009). "Frida Vogels - Dagboek 1966-1967". Het Parool. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
- ^ Koenders, Edith (7 May 2011). "Tante sprak zelfs de dokters moed in". de Volkskrant. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
- ^ Peters, Arjan (13 January 1995). "Weggedoken onder de lakens Bert Weijde bericht ontroerend over zijn vak: verpleegde in een inrichting". de Volkskrant. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
External links
[edit]- Frida Vogels Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine at Van Oorschot
