Erik Menkveld

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Menkveld was born as only child in 1959 in Eindhoven.

Erik Jan Willem Menkveld (25 April 1959 – 30 March 2014) was a Dutch poet.

Between 1987 and 1998 he worked at publishing company De Bezige Bij. In 1995 he published Achter het behang, a Dutch translation of the German work Der kleine Erziehungsberater by Axel Hacke. In the same year he also published Koebeest en vrouwdier.

Menkveld made his debut with poetry collection De karpersimulator (1997) which was published by De Bezige Bij. He won the C. Buddingh’-prijs for this debut but did not receive the award as Menkveld was working at Poetry International at the time, the organisation behind the award. Menkveld also won the Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogt-prijs for De karpersimulator. In 1998 he was also nominated for the VSB Poetry Prize for this debut.

His second poetry collection Schapen nu! was published by De Bezige Bij in 2001 and his third poetry collection Prime time followed in 2005, this time published by Van Oorschot. For Schapen nu! he was nominated for the Hugues C. Pernath-prijs as well as the J.C. Bloem-poëzieprijs.

In 2008 he was one of the nominees to become Dichter des Vaderlands, an unofficial title for the poet laureate of the Netherlands, along with Hagar Peeters, Joke van Leeuwen and Ramsey Nasr.

In 2012 he won the Academica Literatuurprijs for his novel Het grote zwijgen (2011).

Menkveld died of cardiac arrest in 2014 in Amsterdam. He is buried at Zorgvlied.

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