Editing J. Slauerhoff (section)

==Youth==
Slauerhoff attended [[Hogereburgerschool|HBS]] (secondary school) in [[Leeuwarden, Netherlands|Leeuwarden]], where he first met fellow future writer [[Simon Vestdijk]], who was from [[Harlingen, Netherlands|Harlingen]]. In 1916, Slauerhoff and Vestdijk both moved to [[Amsterdam]] to read medicine. While at the university, Slauerhoff wrote his first poems; his debut as a poet was in the Communist magazine ''[[De Nieuwe Tijd]]''. He edited the Amsterdam student magazine ''[[Propria Cures]]'' from 1919 to 1920.<ref name="stuiveling"/> In 1919, Slauerhoff became engaged to a Dutch language student, Truus de Ruyter.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}} In 1921 he joined the staff of the literary magazine ''[[Het Getij]]'' and later that of ''[[De Vrije Bladen]]''; in this period he became acquainted with poets [[Hendrik Marsman]] and [[Hendrik de Vries]].<ref name="stuiveling"/>