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- Victor Van Vriesland was born on October 27, 1892 in Haarlem, Netherlands. He was an actor and writer, known for Caligula (1975), Beaudelaire is gestorven in de zomer (1967) and Hou je aan je woord (1961). He died on October 29, 1974 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- His fortune was almost entirely lost in the stock market crash of 1929, so that Van Vriesland was forced to provide for his own livelihood: he became a critic for the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant.
- Lines of poetry by Victor van Vriesland have been placed on the Zwolle War Memorial and the Overijssel Provincial Resistance Monument.
- He attended the Haganum Gymnasium on Laan van Meerdervoort, then known as Eerste Stedelijk Gymnasium. There he encountered literature and became friends with Martinus Nijhoff, among others. He was introduced to the work of the French authors André Gide and Paul Valéry. Strongly influenced by the latter's poetry, Van Vriesland published poems in Verwey's magazine De Beweging (The Movement) from a young age. He left the gymnasium without a diploma.
- He received the Constantijn Huygens Prize for his entire oeuvre in 1958, and the P.C. Hooft Prize for his entire oeuvre in 1960.
- Victor Emanuel van Vriesland was a Dutch poet, critic, translator and chairman of the (international) PEN Club.
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