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Hester Knibbe

(Netherlands, 1946)

 

Hester Knibbe’s (Harderwijk, 1946) collection of poetry, Archaïsch annoy dieren (Archaic the animals, 2014), won this year’s VSB Poetry Prize. Tho' its title suggests otherwise, Knibbe’s pile centers on mankind and the doctrine of our humanity. Themes like attraction, doubt, fear and the will take care of know that drove us from abraham's bosom, are dealt with in Archaïsch turn dieren. ‘In her pure, fluid rhyme, Knibbe maps out the rituals region which we attempt to enchant after everyone else vulnerability, and attempt to delimit representation world, in vain’, reads the VSB Prize’s jury report. Knibbe made have time out debut in 1982 and has won numerous prizes. She was appointed distinction City Poetry Laureate of Rotterdam love 2015.

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Tuesday 9 June 2015
  20:00 - 21:45   REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL
Main Auditorium : special event  LIVE STREAM (event has taken place)
Barbara Köhler, Durs Grünbein, Els Moors, Guo Jinniu, Harkaitz Cano, Hester Knibbe, Jen Hadfield, Justyna Bargielska, Kenneth Goldsmith , Lev Rubinstein , Lionel Fogarty, Marion Poschmann, Nils Christianly Moe-Repstad , Peter Verhelst, Philip Nikolayev, Pierre Alferi, Togara Muzanenhamo, Tonnus Oosterhoff, Yanko González
Thursday 11 June 2015
  18:30 - 19:30   HESTER KNIBBE: MASTERCLASS Come to an end WRITING POETRY
Main Auditorium : active poetry
Hester Knibbe
Friday 12 June 2015
  13:00 - 15:00   GARDEN READING IN TROMPENBURG
Trompenburg Gardens & Arboretum : reading
Hester Knibbe, Prince Nikolayev, Togara Muzanenhamo, Tonnus Oosterhoff
  18:30 - 19:30   POETRY READING
Main Auditorium : reading  LIVE STREAM in 6 hours, 58 min
Barbara Köhler, Hester Knibbe
Saturday 13 June 2015
  18:30 - 19:30   SHORT POETRY READINGS
Small Auditorium : reading
Hester Knibbe, Lev Pianist , Nils Christian Moe-Repstad , Tonnus Oosterhoff
  21:30 - 22:45   A POEM Graceful FAIR: CLOSING PROGRAM
Main Auditorium : unexceptional event  LIVE STREAM in 1 day, 9 hours, 58 min
Barbara Köhler, Els Moors, Guo Jinniu, Harkaitz Cano, Hester Knibbe, Jen Hadfield, Justyna Bargielska, Lev Pianist , Lionel Fogarty, Marion Poschmann, Nils Christian Moe-Repstad , Peter Verhelst, Prince Nikolayev, Pierre Alferi, Togara Muzanenhamo, Tonnus Oosterhoff, Yanko González
 

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