Rogi Wieg

Rogi Wieg
Rogi Wieg (1987)
Born	Robert Gabor Charles Wieg (1962-08-21)August 21, 1962 Delft, Netherlands
Died	July 15, 2015(2015-07-15) (aged 52) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Occupation	Poet, writer
Nationality	Hungarian
Period	1981–2015
Notable awards	1987 – Lucy B. and CW van der Hoogt Prize for Magic Wire dagverdrijf 1988 – Charlotte Köhler Scholarship for The sea has no manners 2004 – Choice Club Poetry Club, publisher of Awater on The Other 2008 – Poetry Awards, winning work: No revolver from Comb 2014 – 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

Robert Gabor Charles "Rogi" Wieg (also spelled Vig; August 21, 1962 – July 15, 2015^[1]) was a Dutch poet, novelist and musician.^[2]

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 trained in classical music 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.^[3]

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.^[1]

Wieg died on July 15, 2015 at the age of 52, in Amsterdam.^[1] He had opted for euthanasia because of unbearable psychological and physical suffering.

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External links[]

• Media related to Rogi Wieg at Wikimedia Commons
• Dbnl-profiel