Guillaume Pool

(Paramaribo, 1930) went to the Netherlands in 1964 and settled in Groningen. Up until 1995 he worked as an analyst for the Chemical Laboratory of the university. In 1990 he began to write poems and gave gave recitals of poems and stories. He has his own theater for this, called De Vertelplantage (Story plantation) in his hometown Haren. The following collections of his poetry have been published: Timba (1990), Op de vluchtheuvel kwam ik je tegen (I met you on the traffic island) (1995) and De termieten van Tilifo (The termites of Tilifo) (1998). He wrote the plays Het Proces (The process) and Kuduntu, both of which were performed during a staged reading at the festival 'Hollandse nieuwe' in the Cosmic Theater in Amsterdam.
WIN 2003