Editing J. Slauerhoff (section)

==Marriage, final years==
From 1929 on, Slauerhoff stayed in the Netherlands more frequently. He was an assistant in the [[Utrecht University]] clinic for Dermatology and Venereal Diseases from 1929 to 1930.<ref name=hazeu /> In September 1930, he married dancer and ballet teacher Darja Collin, the start of a short happy period in his life. By 1931, however, Slauerhoff had fallen ill again and left for the Italian health resort of [[Merano]] to recuperate. His wife followed him in 1932, so that they might experience the birth of their first child together. The child, Juan Darito, was [[stillbirth|stillborn]], prompting a serious depression in Slauerhoff.<ref name=hazeu>{{cite book | last=Hazeu | first=Wim | title=Slauerhoff : een biografie | publisher=De Arbeiderspers |date=2018 | isbn=9789029525862}}</ref>

Later in 1932, Slauerhoff went to sea again, signing up with the Holland-West-Afrikalijn. His general bad health continued to trouble him and he considered moving to [[Northern Africa]], as this would benefit his health. In March 1934, he set up a doctor's practice in [[Tangier International Zone|Tangier]], then an international [[protectorate]], but by October he had left again. His periods of illness grew longer as the symptoms grew more serious, and his relationship with Darja deteriorated.<ref name=hazeu />

[[File:Slauerhoff4.jpg|thumb|Slauerhoff wearing Chinese attire (Coll. Letterkundig Museum)]]
His fame as a writer, meanwhile, spread. In 1932 he published ''Het verboden rijk'' ("The Forbidden Kingdom"), a partly [[historical novel|historical]], partly [[magical realist]] novel combining the life of a 20th-century European with that of [[Luís de Camões]], the 16th-century Portuguese poet (author of sonnets and the epic ''[[Os Lusíadas|The Lusiads]]'') who spent part of his life in the Orient.<ref name=laan/> Despite not being translated into English until 2012,<ref>{{cite book  | last = Slauerhoff  | first = Jacob  | title = The Forbidden Kingdom  | publisher = Pushkin Press  | location = London  | year = 2012}}</ref> it attracted attention from scholars publishing in English. Jane Fenoulhet, for instance, referred to it as an important modernist novel in 2001.<ref>{{cite journal  | last = Fenoulhet  | first = Jane  | title = Time Travel in the Forbidden Realm: J. J. Slauerhoff's Het verboden rijk Viewed as a Modernist Novel  | journal = [[Modern Language Review]]  | volume = 96  | issue = 2  | pages = 116–29  | year = 2001| doi =  10.2307/3735720| jstor = 3735720 | s2cid = 161222122 | url = http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/455/ }}</ref> Both ''Het verboden rijk'' and the follow-up novel ''Het leven op aarde'' ("Life on Earth," 1934) were widely praised, and his 1933 verse collection ''Soleares'' was awarded the {{Ill|C.W. van der Hoogtprijs|nl|3=Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogtprijs}}.<ref name=laan>{{cite book|last=Laan|first=K. ter|title=Letterkundig woordenboek voor Noord en Zuid|chapter-url=http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/laan005lett01_01/laan005lett01_01_6796.php|year=1952|publisher=G.B. van Goor Zonen|location=The Hague/Jakarta|language=nl|chapter=J. Slauerhoff}}</ref>

The year 1935 saw more sea voyages as a ship's doctor, but also his divorce from Darja Collin. In this period of his life, Slauerhoff fell out with many of his literary friends, among them Du Perron and Vestdijk. During his last voyage, to South Africa, he fell severely ill with malaria on top of his neglected tuberculosis and returned to Merano for yet more recuperation.<ref name=hazeu />

Still ill, he returned to the Netherlands in 1936 to take up residence in a nursing home in Hilversum, where he died on 5 October, just after his 38th birthday and one month after the publication of his last collection of verse, ''Een eerlijk zeemansgraf'' ("An Honourable Seaman's Grave").<ref name=hazeu />