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Arjen Duinker
Arjen Duinker was born in Delft in 1956, studied psychology and philosophy, and continues to live and work in Delft. He has published a novel, Het Moeras (The Morass, 1992), and eleven volumes of poetry in The Netherlands.
Duinker made his debut as a poet in 1988 with the volume Rode oever (Red Shore). In 2001 he received the Jan Campert Prize for his volume De geschiedenis van een opsomming (The History of an Enumeration; 2000). His collection De Zon en de Wereld (The Sun and the World) won the 2005 VSB Poetry Prize, and has been published in English translation in Australia.
Duinker’s work has been translated into several languages and book-length collections have also appeared in France, Portugal, Italy, Iran, Russia and the UK, the latter from Arc Publications. Further volumes are in preparation in China, Finland, Croatia and Mexico. One of his poems was translated into 220 different languages for a project entitled "World Poem".
He works, together with glassblower Bernard Heesen, on the many parts of the encyclopaedic dictionary The World of the Glassblower.Together with the French poet Karine Martel he has written And that ? Infinite (En dat ? Oneindig/ Et cela ? L'infini), which was published in Dutch in Amsterdam in 2006 - publications of this book in French and English will follow.
In 2007 Arjen Duinker published Quartet for two voices: Starfish, Zeester, Etoile de mer, Estrella de mar (four different poems in four different languages).

Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom (b. 1933) has built up an imposing oeuvre of novels, poetry, short stories and travel stories. His novel Rituelen (Rituals, 1980) won both the Bordewijk Prize and the Pegasus Prize for Literature. Berlijnse notities (Berlin Notes, 1990) won the German 3rd of October Literature Prize, and Nooteboom was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize for his oeuvre. In 1993 he won the Aristeion European
Prize for Literature for Het volgende verhaal (The Following Story, 1991), the novel that signalled his international breakthrough, with translations in over twenty languages. In 2004 Nooteboom published Paradijs verloren, his first novel since Allerzielen (All Souls' Day, 1998). In comparison it is a more compact, lighter novel in keeping with his earlier work, such as his debut Philip en de anderen (Philip and the Others, 1955) and Rituals (1980). In 2004 the 71-year-old writer received the highest literary award of the Netherlands, the P.C. Hooft Award. The jury's report stated that with regard to its
power of expression, scope and originality, Cees Nooteboom's prose is of the best produced in the Netherlands in the last fifty years.
Titles in Portuguese: A história seguinte, Quetzal 1993; Máscara de Neve, Quetzal 1995; Rituais, Asa 2000; O (des)caminho para Santiago, Asa 2003.

Gerrit Komrij
Was born in 1944 in Winterswijk, near the Dutch-German border. Since 1984 he is living and working in Portugal. His vast bibliography includes poetry, novels, essays, polemics, theatre and anthologies. In 1999 he was made a honorary doctor by the University of Leiden and in 2000 he became the first Poet Laureate of the Netherlands. Two of his novels were translated into Portuguese: Atrás dos Montes and Um Almoço de Negócios em Sintra (both by Asa). In 1996 Assírio & Alvim published his anthology of Dutch modern poetry Uma Migalha na Saia do Universo. Web pages:
http://www.kb.nl/kb/dichters/komrij/komrij-00.html
http://www.epibreren.com/rs/komrijuk.html

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