Maarten van der Graaff

Residence:

International Residency Program of Kraków UNESCO City of Literature

Maarten has been working as a poet and writer in the Netherlands for 7 years now. His first collection of poems, Vluchtautogedichten (Getaway car poems), was awarded the C. Buddingh’-prize, a prestigious prize for debut collections. He teaches at the Radboud University in Nijmegen and ArtEZ in Arnhem. In recent years was a resident of the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht and read at bookstores and festivals in London, Lviv, Zagreb, and Sydney.

 

 

At the residency in Kraków in August-September 2021.

 

photo Bianca Sistermans