Poets

Erik Lindner was born on May 3, 1968 in The Hague, the Netherlands. When he turned fourteen he left secondary school and worked, amongst others, as a tutor of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy for The Arts. Lindner made his début in 1996 with Tramontane. From 1998 till 2003 Lindner was attached to the Institut Néerlandais in Paris as a freelance programmer. He has read his work to audiences since 1984 and was a guest at various international festivals. He published four books of poetry and a novel. In 2012 he was stipendiat of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of DAAD. Translated books appeared in French, German and Italian. Also, individual poems of Lindner have already been translated into Chinese, English, Macedonian and Turkiish.