Arjen Duinker

Sailor’s Home 1

língua: holandês

Traduções : alemão (Sailor's Home 1), espanhol (El hogar del marino 1), turco (Denizcinin Evi 1)

Sailor’s Home 1

De roep van de golven rood.
Een bloem glijdt door een glooiing
En geeft haar parfum aan een steilte
Die vrij in de lucht zwijgt.

De trots van de golven zwart.
De ogen roven het onverwachte
Dat de striemen op de huid
Met blaadjes kalmeert.

Arjen Duinker

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* 31.12.1956, Delft, Holanda
vive em: Delft, Holanda

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.

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Duinkers 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).

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