Anneke Brassinga (born 20 August 1948, in Schaarsbergen, Gelderland) is a Dutch writer and translator. She was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 2008, and has received numerous other prizes as well.
Life and career Brassinga studied Translation Studies in Amsterdam. She works as a literary translator, and has translated the works of the following authors into Dutch: George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Sylvia Plath, Patricia Highsmith, W.H. Auden, Hermann Broch, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Marcel Proust, and Jules Verne.
She is considered a postmodern writer, but she prefers to see herself as surrealist. The themes of her poetry are nature, love, the vulnerability of beauty and language.
Works Poetry Aurora (1987) Landgoed (1989) Thule (1991) Zeemeeuw in boomvork (1994) Huisraad (1998) Verschiet (2001) Timiditeiten (2003) Wachtwoorden. Verzamelde herziene gedichten, 1987-2003. (2005)(with cd) Wachtwoorden. Verzamelde herziene gedichten, 1987-2015. (2015) IJsgang (2006) Ontij (2010) Het wederkerige (2014) Verborgen tuinen (2019)
Prose Hartsvanger (1993) Hapschaar (1998, 2018) - short stories Het zere been (2002) - essays Tussen vijf en twaalf (2005) - letters Bloeiend puin (2008) - essays as co-author: Het zere been: essays & diversen (2015) Grondstoffen (2015) - essays
Awards 2015: P.C. Hooft Award for her poetry 2008:Constantijn Huygens Prize for her overall oeuvre 2005:Anna Bijns Prize for Timiditeiten 2002:VSB Poetry Award for Verschiet 2002:Ida Gerhardt Poëzieprijs for Verschiet 2001:ECI Prize 2001:Paul Snoek Prize for Huisraad 1990:Herman Gorter Prize for Landgoed 1985:Trevanian Poetry Prize
References Profile at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands Profile at the Digital Library for Dutch Literature