| Pem Sluijter | |
| Birth Name: | Petronella Eduarda Maria Rutgers-Sluijter |
| Birth Date: | 1939 5, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Middelburg, Netherlands |
| Death Place: | The Hague |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Occupation: | Poet |
Pem Sluijter[1] (15 May 1939 – 18 December 2007) was a Dutch poet.
Pem Sluijter was born in 1939 in Middelburg, Netherlands.
Sluijter worked between 1959 and 1963 as journalist at Het Parool.[2] [3]
Sluijter made her debut at 58 years of age with poetry collection Roos is een bloem (1997). She won the C. Buddingh'-prijs for this debut.[2] Her second poetry collection Het licht van Attica was published in 2004.[2] Both of her publications were published by De Arbeiderspers.
Sluijter died in The Hague in December 2007.[2]
In 2018, her poem Nachtbraak was added to a wall in the Batjanstraat in The Hague, both in Dutch and translated into English.[3]