| Intro | Dutch poet |
| Was |
Writer Physician Scientist Poet Playwright Biologist Painter Autobiographer Hematologist |
| From |
United States of America Netherlands |
| Type |
Arts Film, TV, Stage & Radio Healthcare Literature Science |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 10 April 1915, Gouda, South Holland, Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Death |
22 February 2014, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, U.S.A. (aged 98 years) |
Leo Vroman (April 10, 1915 – February 22, 2014) was a Dutch-American hematologist, a prolific poet mainly in Dutch and an illustrator. Vroman was born in Gouda and studied biology in Utrecht. When the Nazis occupied the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, he fled to London, and from there he traveled to the Dutch East Indies. He finished his studies in Batavia. After the Japanese occupied Indonesia he was interned and stayed in several prisoner-of-war camps. In the camp Tjimahi he befriended the authors Tjalie Robinson and Rob Nieuwenhuys.
After the war, Vroman went to the United States to work in New York as a hematology researcher. He gained American citizenship and lived in Fort Worth until his death in 2014, aged 98.
In 1946, he published his first poems in the Netherlands, and since then has won almost every Dutch literary poetry prize possible. In 1970 Vroman was awarded the Individual Science Award by Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. In 2003, his former high school, de Goudse ScholenGemeenschap (GSG), changed its name into de Goudse ScholenGemeenschap Leo Vroman (GSG Leo Vroman).
Poetry
In Dutch
- Gedichten (1946)
- Gedichten, vroegere en latere (1949)
- Poems in English (1953)
- Inleiding tot een leegte (1955)
- Uit slaapwandelen (1957)
- De ontvachting en andere gedichten (1960)
- Twee gedichten (1961)
- Fabels van Leo Vroman (1962)
- Manke vliegen (gedichten en tekeningen) (1963)
- 126 gedichten (verzamelbundel) (1964)
- Almanak (1965)
- 144 gedichten (verzamelbundel) (1969)
- Ballade van mezelf (1969)
- 262 gedichten (verzamelbundel) (1974)
- God en Godin (1976)
- Huis en Tuin. Fabels en strips (1979)
- Nieuwsgierig (1980)
- Het verdoemde carillon (1981)
- De ballade van Jantje (1981, oplage 30 ex.)
- Liefde, sterk vergroot (1982)
- Avondgymnastiek (1983)
- De cultuurgeschiedenis (1984)
- Gedichten 1946-1984 (1985)
- Fractaal (1987)
- Ongebundelde gedichten 1937-1941 (1989)
- Dierbare ondeelbaarheid (1989)
- Een soort van ziel in negen delen (1990)
- Neembaar (Keuze uit de gedichten) (1991)
- Toen ik nog leefde (1991)
- De godganselijke nacht (1993)
- Psalmen en andere gedichten (1995)
- Vergelijkingen (1996)
- De roomborst van Klaas Vaak (1997)
- Details (1999)
- Spiegelbezoek (1999)
- Bij duizenden (2000)
- Aan elkaar (with Tineke Vroman) (2001)
- De gebeurtenis en andere gedichten (2001)
- Een stilte die niet bestaat (2001)
- Aan elkaar / Herhaling (with Tineke Vroman) (2002)
- Tweede verschiet (2003)
- De mooiste gedichten uit Hollands Maandblad (with drawings by Iris Le Rütte) (2006)
- Alle malen zal ik wenen (2007)
- Nee, nog niet dood (2008)
- Soms is alles eeuwig (2009)
- Zodra (2010)
- Daar (2011)
In English
- Poems in English (1953)
- Just one more world (poems and photographs) (1976)
Prose
- Tineke (1948)
- De adem van Mars (1956)
- Snippers van Leo Vroman (1958)
- Tineke / De adem van Mars/Snippers van Leo Vroman (1960)
- Agenda uit het jaar 2000 (1968)
- Sdsi ‘Boek’ pfhpfh (tekst en tekeningen) (1968)
- Het Carnarium (1973)
- Brieven uit Brooklyn (1975)
- Proza, een keuze uit de verhalen (1984)
- Warm, rood, nat & lief (autobiography, 1994)
- Vroeger donker dan gisteren. Herfstdagboek. (2004)
- Misschien tot morgen : dagboek 2003-2006. (2006)
(See you tomorrow, maybe – diary 2003-2006)
Children’s books
- Stiemer en Stalma (text A. Koolhaas/illustrations Leo Vroman) (1957)
- De trapeze 10 (with Anton Koolhaas) (1967)
Theater
- Het Grauwse Diep (1966)
- Voorgrond, achtergrond (1969)
Scientific work
E.g.,
- Surface contact and thromboplastin formation (PhD Thesis, University of Utrecht) (1958).
- Blood, Garden City, N.Y. : Published for the American Museum of Natural History, Natural History Press, 1967.
- with Edward F Leonard: The Behavior of blood and its components at interfaces, Columbia University Seminar on Biomaterials, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, 1977. Vol. 283 in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- with Edward F Leonard and Vincent T Turitto: Blood in contact with natural and artificial surfaces, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, N.Y., 1987. Vol. 516 in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences