Erik Menkveld
{{Short description|Dutch poet (1959–2014)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Erik Menkveld
| image = Erik Menkveld.JPG
| caption = Erik Menkveld in 2013
| birth_name = Erik Jan Willem Menkveld
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1959|4|25}}
| birth_place = Eindhoven, Netherlands
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2014|3|30|1959|4|25}}
| death_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands
| nationality = Dutch
| occupation = Poet
}}
Erik Jan Willem Menkveld (25 April 1959 – 30 March 2014) was a Dutch poet.
Early life
Erik Jan Willem Menkveld was born on 25 April 1959 on in Eindhoven, Netherlands. He was an only child{{cite web|url=https://www.kb.nl/themas/nederlandse-poezie/moderne-nederlandse-dichters/erik-menkveld/erik-menkveld-biografie|title=Erik Menkveld: biografie|publisher=Koninklijke Bibliotheek|accessdate=15 March 2019|archive-date=15 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190315124026/https://www.kb.nl/themas/nederlandse-poezie/moderne-nederlandse-dichters/erik-menkveld/erik-menkveld-biografie|language=Dutch|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_jaa004201701_01/_jaa004201701_01_0012.php|title=Erik Jan Willem Menkveld - Eindhoven 25 april 1959 - Amsterdam 30 maart 2014|publisher=Digital Library for Dutch Literature|accessdate=15 March 2019|archive-date=15 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190315170909/https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_jaa004201701_01/_jaa004201701_01_0012.php|language=Dutch|url-status=live}}
Career
Between 1987 and 1998 Menkveld worked at publishing company De Bezige Bij. In 1995, he published Achter het behang, a Dutch translation of the German work Der kleine Erziehungsberater by Axel Hacke. In the same year he also published Koebeest en vrouwdier.
Menkveld made his debut with poetry collection De karpersimulator (1997) which was published by De Bezige Bij.{{cite web|url=https://www.kb.nl/themas/nederlandse-poezie/moderne-nederlandse-dichters/erik-menkveld/1-zeer-bepaald-maar-willekeurig-zand|title=De gedichten van Erik Menkveld 1997 - 2005|publisher=Koninklijke Bibliotheek|accessdate=15 March 2019|archive-date=15 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190315123144/https://www.kb.nl/themas/nederlandse-poezie/moderne-nederlandse-dichters/erik-menkveld/1-zeer-bepaald-maar-willekeurig-zand|language=Dutch|url-status=live}} He won the C. Buddingh'-prijs for this debut but did not receive the award as Menkveld was working at Poetry International at the time, the organisation behind the award.{{cite web|url=https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/1998/06/15/winnaar-menkveld-krijgt-geen-prijs-7403125-a851199|title=Winnaar Menkveld krijgt geen prijs|date=15 June 1998|publisher=NRC|accessdate=15 March 2019|archive-date=15 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190315080231/https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/1998/06/15/winnaar-menkveld-krijgt-geen-prijs-7403125-a851199|language=Dutch|url-status=live}} Menkveld also won the {{Ill|Lucy B. and C.W. van der Hoogt Prize|nl|3=Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogtprijs}} for De karpersimulator.{{cite web|url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_jaa003199901_01/_jaa003199901_01_0015.php|title=Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogt-prijs 1999|publisher=Digital Library for Dutch Literature|accessdate=15 March 2019|archive-date=15 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190315170005/https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_jaa003199901_01/_jaa003199901_01_0015.php|language=Dutch|url-status=live}} In 1998 he was also nominated for the VSB Poetry Prize for this debut.
His second poetry collection Schapen nu! was published by De Bezige Bij in 2001 and his third poetry collection Prime time followed in 2005, this time published by Van Oorschot.
Recognition and awards
For Schapen nu! he was nominated for the Hugues C. Pernath-prijs as well as the J.C. Bloem-poëzieprijs.
In 2008, he was one of the nominees to become Dichter des Vaderlands, an unofficial title for the poet laureate of the Netherlands, along with Hagar Peeters, Joke van Leeuwen, and Ramsey Nasr.{{cite web|url=https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2014/03/31/dichter-en-schrijver-erik-menkveld-overleden-a1467548|title=Dichter en schrijver Erik Menkveld (1959) overleden|date=31 March 2014|publisher=NRC|accessdate=15 March 2019|archive-date=15 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190315083938/https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2014/03/31/dichter-en-schrijver-erik-menkveld-overleden-a1467548|language=Dutch|first=Roderick|last=Nieuwenhuis|url-status=live}}
Other awards include:
- 1998: C. Buddingh'-prijs, for De karpersimulator (won, but not awarded)
- 1999: Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogt-prijs, for De karpersimulator
- 2012: Academica Literatuurprijs, for his 2011 novel Het grote zwijgen
Personal life and death
Menkveld was married to Maria Vlaar.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
He died of cardiac arrest on 30 March 2014 in Amsterdam. He is buried at Zorgvlied.
Publications
- Briefwisseling met R.N. Roland en H. Roland Holst-Van der Schalk (1990)
- Koebeest en vrouwdier (1995)
- De karpersimulator (1997)
- Honderd jaar Nobelprijspoëzie (2000)
- Schapen nu! (2001)
- Prime time (2005)
- Met de meeste hoogachting (2006)
- Het grote zwijgen (2011)
- Verzamelde gedichten (2016)
References
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External links
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- [https://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=menk002 Erik Menkveld] (in Dutch), Digital Library for Dutch Literature
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