Driek van Wissen, a man to miss: ‘I just had a very nice life with him’

Will there be a monument to the only Groningen Poet Laureate? Corien Bleeker was life partner of Driek van Wissen, who died in 2010. “When I first visited him, Driek lit the biggest cigar I had ever seen.”

Corien Bleeker, the life partner of Driek van Wissen, at the pond at the Van Brakelplein in Groningen. Photo: Corne Sparidaens

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