Anne Vegter Author & Illustrator

Anne Vegter is the author of numerous poetry collections, children’s books, theatre monologues and erotic stories. Her first collection of poems, Het Veerde (It Bounce), was published in 1991, followed in 1994 by Ongekuiste versies (Filth), a book of erotic tales. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Awater Poetry Prize in 2011. Vegter became the first woman to be named Poet Laureate of the Netherlands in 2013 and is Rotterdam’s city poet for 2021–22. Her most recent collection, Big Data, was published in 2020. Astrid Alben is a poet, editor and translator. Her most recent collection is Plainspeak (Prototype, 2019). Little Dead Rabbit, a collaboration with Zigmunds Lapsa, is due out in 2022. Astrid Alben is a poet, editor and translator. Her debut collection Ai! Ai! Pianissimo was published by Arc in 2011. She is a Rijksakademie Amsterdam Fellow and was awarded a Wellcome Trust Fellowship in 2014. Her poems, essays, translations and reviews have been widely published, including in the Times Literary Supplement, Granta, Oxford Poetry, The Rialto and The Poetry Review. Her poetry is translated into Romanian, Dutch, Slovenian, Maltese and Chinese. She is currently Director of the Poetry Translation Centre.