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Rik Smits is a Dutch linguist and writer. He is best known for his work on the Dutch language, particularly his book, Dutch: A Comprehensive Grammar. He has also written several books on Dutch literature and culture. Smits was born on 30 September 1953 in The Hague, Netherlands. He studied Dutch language and literature at the University of Amsterdam, where he received his PhD in 1983. Smits has written several books on Dutch language and literature, including Dutch: A Comprehensive Grammar, Dutch Literature in the Age of Rembrandt, and Dutch Literature in the Age of Vermeer. He has also written several books on Dutch culture, including Dutch Cuisine: A Culinary History and Dutch Art: A Cultural History. Smits has received numerous awards for his work, including the Dutch Language Prize in 2006 and the Order of the Dutch Lion in 2011. As of 2021, Rik Smits's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

Popular As Reinier Johannes Charles Smits
Occupation Linguist, author, editor
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 30 September 1953
Birthday 30 September
Birthplace The Hague, Netherlands
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2012

Translations include Simon Goldhill's Love, Sex and Tragedy; how the Ancient World Shapes our Lives (Liefde, seks en tragedie; hoe de oudheid ons heeft gevormd, Nieuw Amsterdam, 2012), Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy; the End of Camelot (Killing Kennedy, het einde van een droom, Nieuw Amsterdam, 2012) and Litter; how other People's Rubbish Shapes our Lives (Andermans rotzooi, Nieuw Amsterdam, 2012) by Theodore Dalrymple.

2010

Smits published books on subjects ranging from language via handedness and laterality to history and French cuisine, mostly in Dutch. Books in English comprise The Puzzle of Left-handedness, which deals with the cultural, biological and evolutionary aspects of human handedness and the notions of left, right and symmetry in biology, psychology, art and life in general, and the above-mentioned Dawn, the Origins of Language and the Modern Human Mind, an inquiry into why, how and when the human language faculty - and with it the truly modern mind - developed. For the earlier Dutch version of this book he won the LOT-award 2010. Smits shows that human language is not only truly human, representing a clear and fundamental break between "us" and the animal kingdom, and that it could not have arisen for communicative purposes - that came later.

2008

From 2008-2015 he was the editor of De Republikein (The Republican), a quarterly on modern constitutional democracy and citizenship.

1989

As a linguist he specialized in generative syntax, taking a PhD in General Linguistics in 1989. From then on, he mainly pursued a writing career, informing the general public on linguistic matters theoretical and practical. Apart from linguistics, he published hundreds of articles and interviews on subjects like the brain, ICT and its ramifications, modern media, intellectual property, freedom of speech, copyright and other fundamental rights, history, ethics and politics.

1953

Reinier Johannes Charles "Rik" Smits (born 1953 in The Hague) is a Dutch linguist, author, translator and editor with a wide range of interests.