Hans Sleutelaar

Hans Sleutelaar (22 September 1935 – 25 June 2020) was a Dutch poet.^[1] Together with Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager and Hans Verhagen, Sleutelaar was one of the Zestigers, a Dutch term talking about the literary movement in the 1960s.^[2] Together with Eelke de Jong, Sleutelaar collected 500 fairytales in the collection Sprookjes van de Lage Landen.

Among other things, Sleutelaar worked as a junior copywriter at Unilever, as a freelance copywriter, as a Haagse Post employee and as editor-in-chief of publisher Boelen. He had his own publishing company from 1985 to 2000.^[3]

Sleutelaar died on 25 June 2020 in Rotterdam, aged 84.^[4]