Hagar Peeters
Year of birth: 1972
lives in Amsterdam
Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2008
Nachtzwemmen
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Perdu, 2005
Recensie van de taal
Zoeterwoude-Dorp: De Uitvreter, 2004
Koffers zeelucht
Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2003
Gerrit de Stotteraar. Biografie van een boef
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Podium, 2002
Genoeg gedicht over de liefde vandaag
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Podium, 1999
Hagar Peeters, born 1972 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is a poet, author and performer. She received the Master of Arts in Cultural History and the Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Cultural and Literary Studies. Her dissertation was awarded the "Nationaler Scriptieprijs" (prize for scientific literature) in 2001 and the book prize of Utrecht in 2002. After her graduation, Hagar Peeters worked as an editor for the newspaper "Historisch Nieuwsblad" and as a PR-consultant for a non-profit organisation.
She first started writing in her teenage years and performed at Poetry Slams in youth-clubs. Her first anthology is named "Genoeg gedicht over de liefde vandaag" (1999; Enough of love poems for today). The poem "Droombeeld" (Oneiric image) from her latest anthology "Koffers Zeelucht" (2003; A suitcase full of sea air) was distinguished with the "Gedichtendagprijzen 2004" as one of the best Dutch poems of the year 2003.
In 2005 she was chosen as the first youth poet laureate of The Netherlands.
In 2009, she was nominated as poet laureate of The Netherlands.
Hagar Peeters lives in Amsterdam.
Photo: © by Luc Delagaye
The HALMA grant for Hagar Peeters was made possible by the Fonds voor de Letteren.
