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Nachoem M. Wijnberg

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Nachoem M. Wijnberg

Nachoem M. Wijnberg is one of the Netherlands' preeminent living poets. His debut De simulatie van de schepping (The Simulation of Creation, 1989) was nominated for the Buddingh' Prize, the most important prize for Dutch-language debut collections.

Articles by Nachoem M. Wijnberg

On Tao Qian

By Nachoem M. Wijnberg

He writes the way someone who is no longer impatient speaks.

Translated from Dutch by David Colmer

Multilingual

Du Fu

By Nachoem M. Wijnberg

Every word Du Fu uses, he read somewhere.

Translated from Dutch by David Colmer

Multilingual

Su Dongpo and the Trick he says he Learned from Tao Qian

By Nachoem M. Wijnberg

More to see left and right than he can list.

Translated from Dutch by David Colmer

Multilingual

Quiet

By Nachoem M. Wijnberg

Quiet, you say. / I hardly hear you.

Translated from Dutch by David Colmer

Song

By Nachoem M. Wijnberg

I saw a shop / went in and bought / something I had forgotten / I already had.

Translated from Dutch by David Colmer