Judith Herzberg
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November 4, 1934
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| Born | Judith Frieda Lina Herzberg November 4, 1934 |
| Occupations | Poet, playwright, screenwriter |
Judith Frieda Lina Herzberg (born November 4, 1934) is a Dutch poet and writer.
Judith Herzberg is the daughter of lawyer and writer Abel Herzberg.[1] During World War II Herzberg went into hiding on various locations. Since 1983 Herzberg lives alternately in the Netherlands and Israel.[1] She mainly writes poems and plays, and also works on films. Herzberg debuted in 1961 as a poet in the weekly Vrij Nederland. Two years later, she published her first poetry collection, Zeepost.[2] She also wrote the plays Leedvermaak, Charlotte and Rijgdraad, which were made into films by Frans Weisz. Charlotte is about the painter Charlotte Salomon who was murdered in Auschwitz.[3] In 1997 Herzberg received the P. C. Hooft Award for her entire oeuvre.[2] In 2018, she was awarded the Prijs Der Nederlandse Letteren.[4]
Awards
- 1980 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Screenplay[5]
- 1981 Jan Campert Prize for Botshol[1]
- 1988 Charlotte Köhler-prijs voor Literatuur for Leedvermaak[1]
- 1988 Cestoda-prijs[6]
- 1989 Nederlands-Vlaamse Toneelschrijfprijs for Kras[1]
- 1994 Constantijn Huygens Prize[1]
- 1997 P. C. Hooft Award[2]
- 2018 Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren[7]
- 2022 Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry[8]
