Albertina Soepboer (born December 3, 1969) is a Dutch writer writing in both Frisian and

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. She was born in

Holwerd Holwert is a village in Noardeast-Fryslân municipality in the northern Netherlands, in the province of Friesland. It had a population of around 1,607 in January 2017. Before 2019, the village was part of the Dongeradeel municipality. The ferry to ...

and studied

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and cultures and then Frisian literature in

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. Soepboer has written plays for the Theater De Citadel in Groningen. Soepboer was a finalist for the in 1996, 1997 and 1998 for her poetry and received the prize in 2003 for the story ''Dy griene neisimmer''.

Selected works

* ''It nachtlân/Het nachtland'' (The Night Country), poetry in West Frisian (1998) * ''De stobbewylch'' (The Pollard Willow), poetry in West Frisian (2000) * ''De fjoerbidders'' (The Fire Worshippers), poetry (2003)

References

1969 births Living people Dutch women poets West Frisian-language writers People from Dongeradeel {{Netherlands-writer-stub