Jean Pierre Rawie

(Scheveningen, 1951) is a poet and translator. He studied Russian, Italian and Romanian, although he never completed these studies. Instead Rawie decided to make his hobby his profession and become a poet. He made his debut in 1976 and since then has had a great number of succesful poetry collections published. In 1989 he received for his oevre the Wessel Gansfort award of the province of Groningen. His most recent poetry collection is Wij volgen één voor één hetzelfde pad: de mooiste rouwgedichten (One by one we follow the same road: the best poems for mourning) (2003). Rawie is known for the fixed form of his poetry, and thus is very easy to read. Rawie himself says: ‘Easy reading is hard writing’. Rawie lives and works in Groningen.
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