Marcel Messing

Marcel Messing: (Netherlands, 18 November 1945) Graduated in anthropology, philosophy and religious studies. He is the author of 25 books and several articles. He was a staff lecturer and dean in Higher Vocational Education, a scientific contributor to the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam and a contributor to the journals Prana and Inzicht. Messing lived… Lees verder Marcel Messing

Simon Carmiggelt

Simon Johannes Carmiggelt: (The Hague, 7 October 1913 – Amsterdam, 30 November 1987). Dutch journalist, writer and poet. Under the pseudonym Kronkel, he published an almost daily italic in daily newspaper Het Parool for almost forty years, describing ordinary things in surprising ways, with an eye for humour in the difference between ideal and reality.… Lees verder Simon Carmiggelt

Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī: Or simply Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273) 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih (jurist), Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian (mutakallim),[9] and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. I choose to love you in silence….For in silence I find no rejection. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure… Lees verder Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Gerrit Komrij

Gerrit Jan Komrij: (Winterswijk, 30 March 1944 – Amsterdam, 5 July 2012). Dutch poet and connoisseur of Dutch poetry, writer, serialist translator, critic, polemicist and playwright. In 1993, he was awarded the P.C. Hooft Prize for his contemplative prose. He was the Poet Laureate of the Netherlands from 2000 to 2004. Komrij was known for… Lees verder Gerrit Komrij