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Serge van Duijnhoven (born 1970 in Oss, in the south of the Netherlands) is a performing poet, novelist, playwright and art-editor. He is the author of several books of fiction and non-fiction. Among them four books of poems: The Palace of Sleep (1993), Copycat (1996), End of the Line: Phantom City (1997), Obiit in Orbit; at the other end of the night (1999). All of these books are published in Dutch, by recognized publishing houses. In the last two books cd's are included. Since 1995 the author performs his poetry with electronic music and video-projections in his literary band 'Dichters Dansen Niet' (Poets Don't Dance), together with DJ Fat and VJ Gabriel Kousbroek. In 2003 a new collection of poems with a cd from the band Poets Don't Dance will appear: Bloedtest (Bloodtest).Van Duijnhoven also wrote two books of prose: Poets don't dance (1995) and The Other Side & Happiness (1995), as well as a minibiography on the late emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie (1993), and a monologue for theatre Songs of Vranje (2000) that was published at TeleXpress and played throughout the Rotterdam Cultural Capital of Europe 2001 events at Las Palmas. He was the winner of the Nova Makedonia Poetry Award at the Poetry Festival of Struga 1995, and the Initiator of MillenniuM; the periodical 'timebook' of the Art Group of the Lowlands. For the occasion of the Struga Poetry Evenings, Serge's poetry was translated into Macedonian by Suzana Dapcevka, and published by Detska Radost (Palatata da sonot, 1995). In the fall of 1999 his book We call them Roses was published, a collection of personal impressions gathered during five years of travelling through the Balkan region. The book reached the longlist of the 'Gouden Uil Literatuurprijs 2000' (Golden Owl Literature Price of Flanders). Photographers in Wartime (2002), a book with an extended essay and stirring photos from reknown ‘eyes of the war’ like Nachtwey, Tim Page a.o., appeared in 2002 both in English and Dutch within the Ludion-Beaux Arts collection in cooperation with the Flanders Fields World War I Museum in Ieper. Serge’s latest book is called Bloodtest (De Bezige Bij, 2003) - published together with a cd from his band ‘Poets Don’t Dance’. In the summer of 2000 he participated in the Literaturexpress; a train with about one hundred European writers on board, representing fourtythree European countries. The train was an initiative of the LiteraturWERKstatt Berlin: it crossed Europe from Lisbon through Brussels all the way to Moscow, and then back through Minsk and Warshaw to the final stop: Berlin. Coming year his novel Boulevard Oktoberrevolution will appear, a book set in an unspecified beleaguered city 'somewhere far away in Europe'. In 1995, Serge lived for a while in Sarajevo. Before that, he lived in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Luverne Minnesota (USA) and France. Currently he lives in Brussels, Belgium, where he is working as a feelance reporter, especially on Balcan matters, for Dutch and Flemish media.See www.google.com to learn more about Serge van Duijnhoven. Or simply visit his own website at www.sergevanduijnhoven.net with fragments in Real Audio and texts in four languages (Dutch, English, German and French)[email protected] 23 B-1000 Brussels Belgium INTERNATIONAL BOOKINGSDutch Literary Productions and Translations FoundationMr Thomas MoehlmannSingel 4641017 AW AmsterdamThe Netherlandstel.: +31 (0)20.620.62.61fax: +31 (0)20.620.71.79PUBLISHERDe Bezige Bij Publishing CompanyVan Miereveldstraat 11071 DW AmsterdamThe NetherlandsTel: 020-3059810Fax: 020-3059824E-mail: [email protected]: http://www.debezigebij.nl/
