Elly de Waard

Elly de Waard (photo by Ben Kleyn)

Elly de Waard (born September 8, 1940) is a Dutch poet.[1]

She was born in Bergen[1] and was educated at the Murmellius Gymnasium and the University of Amsterdam.[2] From 1965 to 1984, she was a rock music critic for the Dutch daily newspaper de Volkskrant and the Dutch weekly magazine Vrij Nederland.[3] She also served on a jury which awarded the Dutch Edison music awards in 1972.[4] In 1978, de Waard published her first book of poems Afstand (Distance). She was a founding member of the Anna Bijns Foundation, which awards a prize to a Dutch female writer. She had a leading role in the group of women poets known as De Nieuwe Wilden (The New Savages).[3]

  1. ^ a b "Elly de Waard" (in Dutch). digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren.
  2. ^ Europa Publications (2004). International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Taylor & Francis. p. 407. ISBN 185743269X.
  3. ^ a b Meijer, Maaike; Eijsker, Erica; Peypers, Ankie; Prins, Yopie (1998). Dutch and Flemish Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology. Feminist Press at CUNY. p. 185. ISBN 1558611525.
  4. ^ Billboard. December 16, 1972. p. 49.