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Erik Menkveld

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Erik Menkveld
Erik Menkveld in 2013
Erik Menkveld in 2013
BornErik Jan Willem Menkveld
(1959-04-25)25 April 1959
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Died30 March 2014(2014-03-30) (aged 54)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
OccupationPoet
NationalityDutch

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

Early life

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Menkveld was born as only child in 1959 in Eindhoven.[1][2]

Career

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Between 1987 and 1998 he worked at publishing company De Bezige Bij.[1] In 1995, he published Achter het behang, a Dutch translation of the German work Der kleine Erziehungsberater by Axel Hacke.[1] 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.[3] 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.[4] Menkveld also won the Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogt-prijs for De karpersimulator.[5] In 1998 he was also nominated for the VSB Poetry Prize for this debut.[4]

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.[3] For Schapen nu! he was nominated for the Hugues C. Pernath-prijs as well as the J.C. Bloem-poëzieprijs.[1]

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.[6]

In 2012, he won the Academica Literatuurprijs for his novel Het grote zwijgen (2011).[6]

Personal life

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Menkveld was married to Maria Vlaar.

Death

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Menkveld died of cardiac arrest in 2014 in Amsterdam.[1][6] He is buried at Zorgvlied.

Awards

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Publications

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  • Briefwisseling met R.N. Roland en H. Roland Holst-Van der Schalk (1990)
  • Koebeest en vrouwdier (1995)
  • De karpersimulator (1997)
  • Honderd jaar Nobelprijspoëzie (2000)
  • Schapen nu! (2001)
  • Prime time (2005)
  • Met de meeste hoogachting (2006)
  • Het grote zwijgen (2011)
  • Verzamelde gedichten (2016)

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Erik Menkveld: biografie" (in Dutch). Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Erik Jan Willem Menkveld - Eindhoven 25 april 1959 - Amsterdam 30 maart 2014" (in Dutch). Digital Library for Dutch Literature. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  3. ^ a b "De gedichten van Erik Menkveld 1997 - 2005" (in Dutch). Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  4. ^ a b c "Winnaar Menkveld krijgt geen prijs" (in Dutch). NRC. 15 June 1998. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogt-prijs 1999" (in Dutch). Digital Library for Dutch Literature. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  6. ^ a b c Nieuwenhuis, Roderick (31 March 2014). "Dichter en schrijver Erik Menkveld (1959) overleden" (in Dutch). NRC. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
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