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| Albert Hagenaars was
born in 1955 in the border town of Bergen op Zoom and
began his cultural activities as a visual artist and
gallery owner. In 1980 he chose literature. His early work has appeared in magazines such as De Tweede Ronde, Literair Akkoord, Maatstaf and Raster. Some collections were published in their entirety in another language: English, French, Indonesian and Romanian, and individual poems also in German, Polish and Spanish. In addition to poems, prose and translations, he has been compiling reviews of literature, travel books and modern visual art for NBD Biblion (since 1982). He also worked for many years as a poetry critic for the daily newspaper De Haagsche Courant. Composers Wim van den Boom, Dirk Stromberg and Jan Walraven each set poetry by Albert Hagenaars to music, some of which have appeared on CDs. He undertook many travels, including through the United States, Latin America and above all the Far East. He lives part of the year in Indonesia, the country of birth of his wife Siti Wahyuningsih, with whom he translates Dutch poems into Indonesian every month and places them on the website Suara suara dari utara. His main themes are: travel and intercultural relations. In 2023, 'Schatplicht' was published, an anthology of his literary work based on excerpts from books, unpublished work such as diary pages and travel reports, overview lists and numerous photographs. |
