Pierre Kemp

Portrait of Pierre Kemp by Hub. Levigne

Pierre Kemp (1 December 1886 – 21 July 1967) was a Dutch poet and painter, the recipient of the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1956 and the P. C. Hooft Award in 1958. His younger brother was the writer Mathias Kemp.

Kemp was born in Maastricht and died there in 1967. In Limburg, the county where he was born, people made fun out of his surname; in several dialects of Dutch and the regional Limburgian language, 'kemp' (as 'kennep' and general Dutch 'hennep') is the colloquial term for marijuana.

Works

Kemp's poem Voorjaar (in Warder)
Drawing by Pierre Kemp
Handwriting by Pierre Kemp

References

  1. 'Zuster Beatrijs' together with 'Bokken Tinus' by Mr. H. J. L. Lamberts Hurrelbrinck was published in 1935 by Het Poirtersfonds at Eindhoven, the mutual cover being titled 'Twee bloemen van Limburg's bodem' (Two flowers of Limburgian ground).
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