Pupils in search of poetry

Poet Alfred Schaffer presents school pupils from The Hague and their poems about their personal expedition. Dutch spoken.

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Date and time Friday 12 January 2007 21:10 tot 21:35 uur
Location Filmhuis - zaal 7

Tense and a little uncomfortably they roamed the theatre: the pupils who had to perform at the festival and who meanwhile stared at what their professional examples brought to the stage. Poet Alfred Schaffer presented the pupils from The Hague and their fresh verse. Inpsired by a poet in class, films on poetry or poets on the internet pupils wrote a poem about their personal expedition. Organized by the Huis van Gedichten (the House of Poems) and Winternachten. Dutch spoken.

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Alfred Schaffer

(Leidschendam, 1973) is a poet, translator and lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He made his debut in 2000 with the poetry collection Zijn opkomst in de voorstad (His Rise in the Suburb). Over the years, his poetry collections were often awarded or nominated for several important prizes, and translations appeared in English, Afrikaans, French, Chinese, Indonesian, Swedish and other languages. For the collection Kooi he received the Jan Campert Prize and the Ida Gerhardt Poetry Prize in 2008. His work is sometimes humorous, sometimes matter-of-fact and at the same time full of absurd inventions. In 2014, he published his, again critically acclaimed collection Mens Dier Ding. In 2021, he published the personal collection Wie was ik?, for which he received the Herman De Coninck Prize. That same year, Alfred Schaffer was awarded the P.C. Hooft Prize, the largest annual oeuvre prize in Dutch literature.
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