Anneke Brassinga

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

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

Poetry

• 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

• 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

• 2015: P.C. Hooft Award for her poetry
• 2008:Constantijn Huygens Prize for her overall oeuvre
• 2005:Anna Bijns Prize for Timiditeiten
• 2002:VSB Poetry Award for Verschiet
• 2002:Ida Gerhardt Poëzieprijs for Verschiet
• 2001:ECI Prize
• 2001:Paul Snoek Prize for Huisraad
• 1990:Herman Gorter Prize for Landgoed
• 1985:Trevanian Poetry Prize

References

• Profile at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands
• Profile at the Digital Library for Dutch Literature