(Colombia, 1937) is a poet, journalist and writer of short stories and the 'anti-novel' Los cuadernos de N. This is considered a cult book amongst the Colombian youth. He translated works of Flaubert, Shakespeare, Balzac,Yeats, Rimbaud and Blake, and also translated his own work into English. He studied at the universities of Iowa and Berlin and was director of Buchholz, the largest bookstore in Bogota. Suescún was the director of the magazine Eco, and chief editor of the magazine Cromos. He was English teacher and the director of the librairy of the National University of Colombia. As a graphic designer he exhibited in various galeries in places such as Berlin. Suescún has published a number of poetry collections, from which he made a selection for his collection La voz de nadie.
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(Eindhoven, 1959 - Amsterdam 2014) in 1997 made his debut with his collection of poems De karpersimulator (The carp simulator) , published by De Bezige Bij. This was crowned in 1998 with the C.Buddingh award for the best Dutch language debut and also awarded the Van der Hoogt prize. In the same year his poetry collection was nominated for the VSP Poetry award. Erik Menkveld's new work appeared in magazines such as Raster, De Revisor and De Gids. In the beginning of 2001 his second collection of poems Schapen nu! (Sheep now!) was published. He died in march 2014.