Marieke Lucas Rijneveld: Ripe For The Picking
This week's Friday Verses are written by International Booker Prize winner Marieke Lucas Rijneveld. Michele Hutchison translated his poem ‘Plukhoogte'.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
This week's Friday Verses are written by International Booker Prize winner Marieke Lucas Rijneveld. Michele Hutchison translated his poem ‘Plukhoogte'.
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld is the youngest writer to win the International Booker Prize, which celebrates the finest fiction translated into English from around the world.
Join us in bidding goodbye to 2022 with seven of the finest literature stories we published this year that are worth re-reading or listening to again.
Every other Friday we treat you to beautiful verses by a poet from Flanders or the Netherlands. Sometimes an old forgotten poem, but mostly fresh verses by a young or unpublished poet.
Michele Hutchison has been awarded the prize for Stage Four, her English translation of Sander Kollaard’s Stadium IV.
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