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Anneke Brassinga

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Portrait of Anneke Brassinga in 2015

Anneke Brassinga (born 20 August 1948, in Schaarsbergen, Gelderland) is a Dutch writer and translator. She was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 2008, and has received numerous other prizes as well.

Life and career

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Brassinga studied Translation Studies in Amsterdam. She works as a literary translator, and has translated the works of the following authors into Dutch: George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Sylvia Plath, Patricia Highsmith, W.H. Auden, Hermann Broch, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Marcel Proust, and Jules Verne.

She is considered a postmodern writer, but she prefers to see herself as surrealist. The themes of her poetry are nature, love, the vulnerability of beauty and language.

Works

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Poetry

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  • Aurora (1987)
  • Landgoed (1989)
  • Thule (1991)
  • Zeemeeuw in boomvork (1994)
  • Huisraad (1998)
  • Verschiet (2001)
  • Timiditeiten (2003)
  • Wachtwoorden. Verzamelde herziene gedichten, 1987-2003. (2005)(with cd)
    • Wachtwoorden. Verzamelde herziene gedichten, 1987-2015. (2015)
  • IJsgang (2006)
  • Ontij (2010)
  • Het wederkerige (2014)
  • Verborgen tuinen (2019)

Prose

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  • Hartsvanger (1993)
  • Hapschaar (1998, 2018) - short stories
  • Het zere been (2002) - essays
  • Tussen vijf en twaalf (2005) - letters
  • Bloeiend puin (2008) - essays
  • as co-author: Het zere been: essays & diversen (2015)
  • Grondstoffen (2015) - essays

Awards

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References

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