Erik Lindner

(The Hague, 1968) began to recite poetry at age fourteen, often working together with musicians. Fourteen years later his first book of poems appeared, Tramontane. Two more anthologies were to follow: Tongen Trede (Tongues Stair 2000) and Tafel (Table, 2004). If he doesn't write, he organises literary meetings, teaches literature (among others at the Rietveldacademie) or makes travel or literary programmes for VPRO (among others from Poetry International and Crossing Border). In 2003 he collected a French anthology of 33 Dutch poets and in 2007 a book of poetry by himself appeared in a French translation, Terrain. Lindner reviews literature for several magazines and has a weekly poetry column on www.groene.nl/boeken.