Occupation Poet, writer Role Poet Name Rogi Wieg | Period 1981–2015 Nationality Hungarian | |
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Notable awards 1987 – Lucy B. and CW van der Hoogt Prize for Magic Wire dagverdrijf1988 – Charlotte Kohler Scholarship for The sea has no manners2004 – Choice Club Poetry Club, publisher of Awater on The Other2008 – Poetry Awards, winning work: No revolver from Comb2014 – Rogi Cradle's poem 'Slow gone black flower fields was recorded in The 100 best poems chosen by Ahmed Aboutaleb for the VSB Poetry 2014 Spouse Abys Kovacs (m. 2014–2015) | ||
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Robert Gabor Charles "Rogi" Wieg (also spelled Vig; August 21, 1962 – July 15, 2015 ) was a Dutch poet, novelist and musician.
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Biography
Robert Gabor Charles Wieg was born on 21 August 1962 in Delft in the Netherlands. His parents had fled from Hungary in 1956 and had settled in the Netherlands a year later.
Wieg was in classical musical training during his youth, but at the age of sixteen, he started to favor blues music and Dutch chanson. He has worked for Liesbeth List. Wieg was the editor of the literary magazines Tirade and Measure. He was a poetry critic for Het Parool between 1986 and 1999. In 1999, Wieg began with painting and drawing. As an artist he was self-taught. Together with Mari Alföldy, Wieg translated poetry from Hungarian.
His life was marked by severe depression. He was regularly admitted to psychiatric hospitals to undergo electroshock therapy and he attempted suicide three times.
Wieg married on December 29, 2014 with the artist Abys Kovács, who illustrated the poems of Khazarenbloed.
Wieg died on July 15, 2015 at the age of 52, in Amsterdam. He had opted for euthanasia because of unbearable psychological and physical suffering.