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Nachoem M. Wijnberg is a poet and fiction writer. He is the author of a handful of novels and several poetry collections, including Divan van Ghalib, Het leven van, and Liedjes. He is the recipient of both the Ida Gerhart Poetry Prize and the P.C. Hooft Award. He is also an accomplished economist and lectures on business administration at the University of Amsterdam. David Colmer isa translator of Dutch literature based in Amsterdam. He has translated more than sixty book-length works, including work by Gerbrand Bakker, Dimitri Verhulst, Anna Enquist, Annie M. G. Schmidt, and many others. He is the recipient of several prizes, among them the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Bakker's The Detour and the Vondel Translation Prize for Verhulst's The Misfortunates.
Wijnberg is a thrilling phenomenon in contemporary European poetry-his huge stylistic and intellectual range is matched by an exquisite sense of play and the kind of deep strangeness that, like Pessoa's, is open to all comers. David Colmer performs an enormous service in making available to English-language readers the full scope of this Dutch poet's philosophical investigations in translations of great lucidity and lyrical power. -Alissa Valles
