# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerrit-komrij
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:04:09.470Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerrit-komrij"
name: "Gerrit Komrij"
slug: "gerrit-komrij"
description: "Gerrit Jan Komrij was a Dutch poet, novelist, translator, critic, polemic journalist and playwright. He rose to prominence in the early 1970s, writing poetry that sharply contrasted with the free-form poetry of his contemporaries. He acquired a reputation for his prose in the late 1970s, writing acerbic essays and columns often critical of writers, television programs, and politicians. As a literary critic and especially as an anthologist he had a formative influence on Dutch literature: his 1979 anthology of Dutch poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries, reformed the canon, and was followed by anthologies of Dutch poetry of the 17th and 18th centuries, of Afrikaans poetry, and of children's poetry. Those anthologies and a steady stream of prose and poetry publications solidified his reputation as one of the country's leading writers and critics; he was awarded the highest literary awards including the P. C. Hooft Award (1993), and from 2000 to 2004, he was the Dutch Dichter des Vaderlands. Komrij died in 2012 at age 68."
tagline: "Dutch writer (1944–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Gerrit_Komrij%2C_Anna_Ietswaart_(1994).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-03-30"
deathDate: "2012-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           14.30929066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2162429"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.komrij.blogspot.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump