(Utrecht, 1955) is a translator of South African literature. He translated the works of Etienne van Heerden, Breyten Breytenbach and Antjie Krog. With Adriaan van Dis he compiled O wye en droewe land (Oh, wide and sad country), a collection of 101 poems in Afrikaans.

(Winterswijk, 1944) was the first Poet Laureate of the Netherlands. He is considered one of the best columnists in the country, a novelist, renowned translator, and an enhtusiastic reviewer of poetry. Komrij is a cat in a Strange Warehouse, as he called a book of collected essays that came out in 2001. The world is never a trusted or obvious place, but if you look good, there's always something surprising around. 'I don't think I'm a no-nonsense guy. There's too much noise inside of me'. Komrij, who has lived in Portugal since 1984, is one of the most productive Dutch writers. Since 1968 he has published several works annually. Recently Komrij's choice of the one-hundred best Dutch poems (2008) appeared, in addition to an anthology of Dutch children's poetry in over 1000 poems (2007) and Kakafonie (2006), an 'encyclopaedia of shit'. In 2005 he published Eendagsvliegen (Ephemera, literary diary entries) and a volume of poetry Fata Morgana.

(Calvinia, Zuid-Afrika, 1963) is one of the most talented poet and performer in South Africa. In Om te lewe is onnatuurlijk. Eenvoudige spoorwegstories (To live is unnatural. Simple Railway Stories, 1993) he describes his youth in the countryside in Karoo and Beaufort-Wes.
(WN 1998)

(Retreat, South-Africa, 1957) grew up in the cape province. He worked as a graphic designer but is now a famous face in Cape Town, being a street singer and poet. He plays guitar and sings in Goema – a composite street language taken from many languages. For Sôls, language is a way of life: Kyk mooi na dié Taal. (Take a good look at this Language). Hoe haal sy asem? (How does it breath?) Noemmit Patois of Pidgin, (Call it Patois or Pidgin), djy waste jou wasem (You are wasting your breath) en djy hoonie rai beat-tie. (And you don’t hear the beat). Taken from: Dié Taal (This Language). In 1998, the collection My streat and other talk-poems appeared.

(Marken, 1958-2009) was a poet, a writer and a commentator, with a regular column on the Forum page and the book pages of the Volkskrant. Zeeman was the editor of the arts section of the Volkskrant and from 2006-2007 its Rome correspondent. In 2006 he and the writer Abdelkader Benali published an exchange of letters, exchanging ideas on politics, life, love and literature. In 2002 Zeeman received the Gouden Ganzenveer (Golden Goose Quill) for his merits for Dutch literature. Zeeman became well-known in the 1990s as the host of his monthly book programme 'Late at night after a short walk', later to be renamed 'Zeeman with books'. In 1991 he published his first volume of poetry, Beeldenstorm (Iconoclasm), winning him the C. Buddingh Prize. His second volume Verhoudingen (Relationships) appeared in 1995. In the same year he published short stories entitled De Verduistering (The Darkening). He died in 2009.