Toon Tellegen

Modern Poetry in Translation

English - June 04, 2013 20:48 - 3 minutes - 4.59 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Toon Tellegen is one of the best known writers in the Netherlands. Multi-award winning and with more than 20 collections of poetry to date, he is also a novelist and a popular and prolific children's writer. His Raafvogels (Raptors) in Judith Wilkinson's translation won the Popescu prize in 2011.