Maria van Daalen
Maria van Daalen (born 8 July 1950) is a Dutch poet and writer. Maria van Daalen is a pseudonym of Maria Machelina de Rooij.[1]
She was born in Voorburg and studied at the VU University Amsterdam[1] and at the University of Iowa, where she also took part in the International Writing Program.[2] She has taught at the Schrijversvakschool in Amsterdam.[3]
She is also an expert on the subject of Vodou and, in 2007, was initiated as a Mambo Asogwe in Haiti. She was an advisor for an exhibit of Vodou art objects at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam.[3]
Van Daalen published her first poetry collection Raveslag (The Beat of the Raven’s Wing) in 1987; it was shortlisted for the C. Buddingh' Prize. Translations of her poems have appeared in various publications in English, Romanian, Finnish, German, Italian, French, Persian and Frisian.[3]
Selected works
[edit | edit source]Source:[3]
- Het Hotel (The Hotel), poetry (1994)
- Elektron, muon, tau (Electron, Muon, Tau), poetry (2000)
- De zwarte engel (The Black Angel), prose (2005)
- De wet van behoud van energie (The Law of Conservation of Energy), poetry (2007)
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b c d Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Lua error in Module:Authority_control at line 153: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
