Arjen Duinker
Author photo by Jacqueline Koster.
Shearsman Titles
Sailor's Home (anthology)
About the author
Arjen Duinker was born in Delft in 1956 and continues to live and work there. He has published a novel, Het Moeras (The Morass, 1992), and nine volumes of poetry in The Netherlands, all from Meulenhoff Publishers, Amsterdam.
He made his debut as a poet in 1988 with the volume Rode oever (Red Shore). In 2001 he received the prestigious Jan Campert prize for his volume De geschiedenis van een opsomming (The History of an Enumeration; 2000). His most recent collection De Zon en de Wereld (The Sun and the World) won the 2005 VSB Poetry Prize, and has recently been published in English translation in Australia. His work has been translated into several languages and book-length collections have also appeared in France, Portugal, Italy, and the UK, the latter from Arc Publications. Further volumes are in preparation in China, Finland, Iran, Croatia and Mexico. One of his poems was translated into 220 different languages for a project entitled "World Poem". Together with the French poet Karine Martel he has written And that? Infinite, which was published in Amsterdam in 2006.