Nacht van de Poëzie 2015 - Ester Naomi Perquin-1

Ester Naomi Perquin (born 16 January 1980) is a Dutch poet. She was born in

Utrecht Utrecht ( , , ) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Net ...

and grew up in

Zierikzee Zierikzee () is a small city in the southwest Netherlands, 50 km southwest of Rotterdam. It is situated in the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland. The city hall of Schouwen-Duiveland is located in Zierikzee, its largest city. Zieri ...

. Perquin worked in the prison service to pay for her studies at the school of creative writing in

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. She was editor for the literary journal ''Tirade'' and wrote a column for the weekly ''De Groene Amsterdammer''. Perquin was also the city poet for

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for two years. Her first collection of poetry ''Servetten Halfstok'' (Napkins At Half Mast) was published in 2007. This was followed by ''Namens de ander'' (On Behalf of the Other) in 2009 which received the Jo Peters Poetry Prize in 2010 and the

J.C. Bloem-poëzieprijs The J.C. Bloem-poëzieprijs (Dutch language, Dutch for J.C. Bloem Poetry Prize) is a biennial Dutch literary award. The award is named after Dutch poet and essayist J. C. Bloem and is awarded to a Netherlands, Dutch or Flanders, Flemisch poet's s ...

in 2011. For her first two collections, she also received the . Her third collection published in 2012 ''Celinspecties'' (Cell Inspections) was awarded the VSB Poetry Prize. She received the Anna Blaman Prijs in 2010. In 2017, she was elected Dutch Dichter des Vaderlands (the Dutch counterpart of Britain's

Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom, currently on the advice of the prime minister. The role does not entail any specific duties, but there is an expectation that the holder will writ ...

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21st-century Dutch poets Dutch poets laureate Dutch women poets Dutch journalists Writers from Utrecht (city) People from Zierikzee 1980 births Living people {{Netherlands-writer-stub