Poet
Geert Buelens
Geert Buelens
(Belgium, 1971)
Biography
Geert Buelens is a poet and Professor of Modern Dutch Literature at the University of Utrecht. In 2001 he attracted a lot of media attention with a book on the Flemish avant-garde poet Paul van Ostaijen and his influence on twentieth-century poetry in Flanders. This study was awarded the prestigious triennial Flemish Culture Prize for Essays in 2003, and has been widely acknowledged as the reference work on the experimental tradition in twentieth-century Flemish poetry. In 2002, Buelens published his first collection of poems: Het is, which was awarded the Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogt-prize.
In 2005, Buelens published his second collection of poems: Verzeker u (Ensure).
In 2008 he published Europa Europa (Europe, Europe), an essay book about the effect of the First World War on modern poetry, in which he tries to contextualise the poetics of great European poets such as Rilke, Pessoa, Majakovski and Apollinaire.
Read also the portrait Geert Buelens wrote about Paul van Ostaijen on PIW
© Maarten Crappé
Selected BibliographyPoetry
Het is (It is), Meulenhoff, Amsterdam, 2002
Verzeker u (Ensure), Meulenhoff/Manteau, Antwerp, 2005
Essay
Van Ostaijen tot heden: zijn invloed op de Vlaamse poëzie, Vantilt, Nijmegen, 2001
Europa, Europa, Meulenhoff/Manteau, Antwerp, 2008
Oneigenlijk gebruik - Over de betekenis van poëzie, Vantilt, Nijmegen, 2008
Literary prizes
Literary Prize for Essay of the Province of Antwerp (2003)
Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogt-prize (2003)
Flemish Culture Prize for Essays (2003)
ABN AMRO Bank Prize (2009)
Links
The works of Geert Buelens are published by Meulenhoff (in Dutch).
Article in Yang Literary Magazine (in Dutch).
Poems
Poems of Geert Buelens
Sponsors
Partners
LantarenVenster – Verhalenhuis Belvédère