Henk Hofland is deceased this morning. The Rotterdam writer and journalist, who was attached his entire working life to become NRC, is 88 years. That NRC announced today.
In 1999 he was by fellow journalists named “Journalist of the Century ‘. He was also awarded the Golden Quill (1996) and the P.C. Hooft Prize (2011). The main Dutch press prize, the Tile is named after Hofland’s work.
He was editor of the Algemeen Handelsblad until the merger with the New Rotterdam Courant. Those newspapers went in 1970 together in NRC Handelsblad. He was then a columnist, political commentator, essayist and novelist.
Hofland had a regular column on the opinion pages of foreign policy and decades wrote a column for the Culture Schedule. He began his journalistic career on May 1, 1953 as foreign editor.
Curious
On June 11 there was an interview with him in the NRC. ,, I’m curious as hell, ” he said in the interview. The newspaper, according to NRC chief editor Peter Vandermeersch in mourning the death of Hofland. ,, With him dies a man you can call without exaggeration one of the landmarks of our newspaper, “said Vandermeersch.
Next year a biography, written by Jeroen Vullings that for Hofland that book just interviewed a hundred times. Hofland had, according to the NRC for some time heart problems and died Tuesday morning at home in his sleep. He was cremated in the family.
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