Frida Vogels

Vogels' literary career began with De harde kern, on which she had been at work for four decades; the first volume was published in 1992. The Libris Prize for the second volume, published 1993, garnered her commercial and critical success; the third volume, a collection of poems, was published in 1994. Since then she has published eight of the sixteen planned volumes of her diaries, and in 2011 a booklet containing diary entries of Aunt Lucietta, an aunt of her husband.^[4]

As an editor, Vogels selected texts by Dutch author Bert Weijde (1932-1986) for a posthumously published collection Onder het ijs ("Under the ice").^[5] She has also inspired other authors: she and Weijde were friends of J. J. Voskuil, and she appears in his Bij nader inzien as Henriëtte Fagel;^[3] conversely, Voskuil appears in De harde kern as Jacob.

Vogels also translates from Italian to Dutch, and has rendered works by Giacomo Debenedetti, Primo Levi, Cesare Pavese, and Salvatore Satta.

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