Maria Barnas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Maria Barnas

Dutch writer, poet, artist

Date of Birth: 28-Aug-1973

Place of Birth: Hoorn, County of Holland, Netherlands

Profession: writer, poet, columnist, literary critic

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Maria Barnas

  • Maria Barnas (born 28 August 1973, Hoorn) is a Dutch writer, poet and artist.MARIA BARNAS (NL, 1973) She lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin.
  • Both in her written work, including novels, poetry and essays and in her visual work, she focuses on how description shapes and distorts reality. She studied visual art at the Rietveld Academy and was resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and The American Academy in Rome.
  • Barnas is currently advisor at the Rijksakademie and co-head of the master programme 'Approaching Language' at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. Barnas was awarded the C.
  • Buddingh’ Prize for her first collection of poetry Twee Zonnen (2003) and has since published highly appraised collections, including 'A City Rises' in 2007.
  • In 2011 her collected observations on art and literature for NRC Handelsblad were published in 'Fantastic'.
  • Her collection of poems Jaja de oerknal ('Yeah-Right the Big Bang') came out in 2013, a book focusing on mechanisms of fear, was nominated for the VSB Poetry Prize 2014 and awarded with the Anna Bijns Poetry prize 2014. Her latest collection of poems Nachtboot (Nightboat) was published by Van Oorschot.
  • 'Song for Three Rooms' in which the word tr-eye-ing is spread across three spaces, was commissioned by the Kröller-MĂĽller Museum (17 November 2018 - 31 March 2019).
  • 'Song for Three Rooms' is a combination of sculpture, sound and poetry, based on the idea of seeing and finding words to describe what one sees, as an ever-changing endeavour.

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