Tsead Bruinja wins the Netherland's first Literary Death Match

30 april 2011 On Thursday evening, the first ever Literary Death Match held in the Netherlands took place at SMART Project Space in Amsterdam. The off-beat competition took the form of two rounds of readings, with a total of four writers receiving comments from three judges before a non-literary final that involved spraying silly-string blindfolded at posters of famous Dutch poets. In the latter, PIW poet Tsead Bruinja, who had impressed the audience and the judges with his reading of poems in Frisian, Dutch and English narrowly beat Dina Viergutz to become Literary Death Match champion.