Habitus
Readers of poetry new and old will enjoy the emergence of a new master in the field; Fabias' collection deals heavily too with themes of womanhood/feminism and post-/neo-colonialism, appealing to readers of activist literature eager to broaden their horizons regarding the POV of Curaçaoan writers and their relationship to the Netherlands/Europe.
Radna Fabias was born on the Caribbean island of Curaçao and moved to the Netherlands to study at the age of seventeen. Her first collection of poetry, Habitus, was published in 2018 to universal acclaim and went on to win an unprecedented five Dutch and Belgian poetry prizes. Habitus has also been translated into French, with Spanish, German, and Italian editions in production.
David Colmer is an Australian writer, editor, and translator, mainly of Dutch-language literature. He translates in a range of genres and has won many prizes, including the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (both with novelist Gerbrand Bakker), and most recently the James Brockway Prize for his poetry translations.
