Mustafa Stitou

Mustafa Stitou, one of the most acclaimed poets in the Dutch language today and winner of many major prizes, including the Jan Campert Prize and the A. Roland Holst Award, grapples in his poetry with his position in a changing reality. Stitou brilliantly parlays his relationship with his two mehr anzeigen homelands into a chronicle of identity, producing a vital account of cultural friction in poems that range from narrative to lyrical. Humor and seriousness go hand in hand, and the everyday combines with the surreal and the sublime to form a vibrant tension. This collection charts Stitou's progress as a poet of emotion and intellect, one who poignantly illuminates the ambiguities of cultural identities, and the intersections of our inner and outer worlds. weniger anzeigen