Dutch writer and poet Lidy van Marissing dies aged 84

Dutch writer, poet and journalist Lidy van Marissing has died aged 84. She died on 15 October in Amsterdam, according to Nieuws.nl, which reported that a death notice for her appeared in several newspapers on Saturday.

Van Marissing worked as an interviewer and journalist for the newspaper de Volkskrant in the 1960s and also wrote for the literary magazine *Raster*. She made her debut in 1972 with the experimental novel *Ontbinding*, which she called an “anti-novel”, and went on to publish novels and poetry collections. She also wrote film scripts.

In 2024, she received the Sybren Polet Prize for experimental literature in recognition of her complete body of work.