Maarten van der Graaf
Krakow UNESCO City of Literature Residency Program
Krakow Festival Office in cooperation with
Villa Decius Cultural Institute
2021
Krakow Festival Office in cooperation with
Villa Decius Cultural Institute
2021

Maarten van der Graaff, who lives in Utrecht, has been working as a poet and writer in the Netherlands for 7 years. For his debut collection of poems entitled “Vlutautogedten” (“Refugees’ poems”) received the prestigious C. Buddingh Prize. He lectures at Radboud University in Nijmegen and ArtEZ in Arnhem. In recent years he was a resident of the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht and took part in literary festivals in London, Lviv, Zagreb and Sydney.