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Tsead Bruinja is a Dutch poet who writes both in Frisian and Dutch. He was born in Rinsumageest (17-7-1974) and educated in Groningen, where he studied English language and literature at the University. His Frisian debut De wizers yn it read [The meters in the red] was published in 2000. In 2008, he published his fifth collection of Frisian poetry, Angel / Sting. His Dutch poetry collections are Dat het zo horde [The way it should be] (2003), Batterij [Battery] (2004), and Bang voor de bal [Afraid of the ball] (2007). Dat het zo hoorde was nominated for the Jo Peters Poetry Prize. Translations of his work have been published in several international magazines, such as Atlas (India/UK), Action Poétique (France), Mantis (USA) and Mentor (Slovenia). Tsead performs his work widely and lives in Amsterdam. In 2008 he was nominated to become the next Poet Laureate of the Netherlands.
Tsead Bruinja has read his work to the following international audiences:
De Nachten (Antwerp, Belgium), Zuiderzinnen (Antwerp, Belgium), Het uitzaaiend kaf (Gent, Belgium), Dichter aan huis (Gent, Belgium), The Blue Room (Newcastle, England), The Stanza Festival (St. Andrews, Scotland),
N(o)rdschrift (Bremen, Germany), The Dutch Embassy (Berlin, Germany), Leipzich Book Fair (Leipzich, Germany), Poetry on the Road (Bremen, Germany), Forum des Langues du monde (Toulouse, France), Institút Neerlandais (Paris, France), The Struga Poetry Festival (Struga, Macedonia), The International Poetry Festival (Palembang & Jakarta, Indonesia), Festival Internacional de Poesia de Granada (Granada, Nicaragua) and The Hifa festival (Harare, Zimbabwe).
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Translations of Tsead Bruinja's poetry have been published in the following magazines:
Afrikaans
Fragmente - Literary journal.
Ontheemdes Breedevallei Dichters / Poëzienacht van die MUSE - Volume II - red. Lina Spies & Floris Brown. Zuid-Afrika.
Arabic
AHDAQ - Quarterly cultural magazine of modern literature. No. 3. The Netherlands, Amsterdam: 2004.
English
Visions International No. 67 - red. Bradley R. Strahan / Claudia Emerson. USA, Fredericksburg.
Mantis - Journal of Poetry, Criticism & Translation. USA, Stanford: spring 2006.
Pratik Literary Journal. Nepal: spring 2006.
Praktik - A magazine of contemporary writing - Vol. XIV No. 1. Nepal
German
STINT - Zeitschrift für Literatur - No. 27 Sprachen der Liebe. Deutschland, Bremen: 2000.
Park - Zeitschrift für neue Literatur - No. 61. Deutschland, Berlin, Dezember: 2005.
French
Action Poétique - No. 182. La France, Paris, 2005
Slovenian
Mentor - 1 - 2. Slovenije, Ljubljana, 2006
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