Marije Langelaar

(Goes, 1978) is poet. Her third poetry volume, Vonkt (Sparks), was published in 2017, won the Jan Campert Prize and has been nominated for the 2018 VSB Poetry Prize. In Langelaar's poems, a fairy-tale atmosphere meets grimness, and passion meets death. In her debut, De rivier als vlakte (The River as a Plain), there was lots of partying and sex, and lightness dominated. Her second collection, De schuur in (Into the Barn) was darker, with people often a plaything of larger forces. According to the Jan Campert jury, Vonkt is "an infectious collection bursting with a passionate love of life and language."