Hester Knibbe (b. 1946) was the poet laureate of the city of Rotterdam in 2015 and 2016. She chaired the Dutch PEN between 2008 and 2010, and published fifteen books of poetry to date, earning her a number of prestigious Dutch prizes, among which the Herman Gorter Prize (2000), the A. Roland Holst Prize (2009) and the VSB Poetry Prize (2015).
(De Arbeiderspers, )
Een dunne duurzaamheid (A Thin Permanence) is the title of one of Hester Knibbe’s collections. The title says much about her poetry: a poetry in which the attention for things permanent invariably combines with themes like vulnerability, fragility, transience.
(De Arbeiderspers, 2016)
A Thin Permanence is the title of one of Hester Knibbe’s collections. The title says much about her poetry: a poetry in which the attention for things permanent invariably combines with themes like vulnerability, fragility, transience.
