Henriette Roland Holst

Henriette Roland Holst
Portrait of Roland Holst by Michel de Klerk (1921)
Born
Henriette Goverdine Anna van der Schalk

(1869-12-24)24 December 1869
Noordwijk, Netherlands
Died21 November 1952(1952-11-21) (aged 82)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Other names
  • Henriette Goverdine Anna Roland Holst-van der Schalk
  • Jet
Occupations
  • Poet
  • activist
Political party
Movement
Spouse
(m. 1896; died 1938)

Henriette Goverdine Anna "Jet" Roland Holst-van der Schalk[a] (24 December 1869 – 21 November 1952) was a Dutch poet and communist. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[1]

She had many noted relatives. Her husband was the artist Richard Roland Holst. The poet Adriaan Roland Holst (1888–1976), nicknamed "the Dutch Prince of Poets", was the nephew of her husband.


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  1. ^ "Nomination Database". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 19 April 2017.