Writer Remco Campert has passed away at the age of 92. The Bezige Bij, the publisher of the author, will let you know this on Monday.
The publisher says it is “intensely saddened and deeply affected” by his death.
Campert had been active as a writer since the 1950s. In 2018 he announced that he would stop writing novels and columns.
The author was the son of poet Jan Campert. After graduating from high school, he started writing translations and advertising texts, as well as composing poems. In 1950 he founded the literary magazine Breek, which functioned as a platform for experimental poets. In 1976 he won the PC Hooft Prize for his poetry work.
Since the 1950s, he has built up a considerable body of work and received several awards for his work. Well-known books include Life is vurrukkulluk from 1961, which was made into a movie this year, and A Love in Paris from 2004.
Campert was married to Freddy Rutgers until 1958. The author married Lucia van de Berg in 1961 and had two daughters with her. After his breakup, he met Deborah Wolf, whom he married in 1996 after several relationship breaks.
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