{"id":2745,"date":"2026-05-20T14:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/?post_type=poet&#038;p=2745"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:05:52","slug":"ellen-deckwitz","status":"publish","type":"poet","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/en\/poet\/ellen-deckwitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Deckwitz (NLD)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ellen Deckwitz (1982) is a poet, writer, columnist and performer known for her boundless energy and sharp perspective on language and literature. Since her debut collection <em>De steen vreest mij<\/em> (2011), which won the C. Buddingh\u2019 Prize, she has become one of the most influential voices in Dutch poetry. She writes columns for <em>NRC<\/em> and <em>De Morgen<\/em>, presents poetry slams, and co-hosts the popular podcast <em>Boeken FM<\/em>. With bestselling books such as <em>Olijven moet je leren lezen<\/em>, she has made poetry accessible to a wide audience. In 2024, Deckwitz was appointed Poet Laureate of Amsterdam. In 2026, she wrote the Poetry Week gift <em>Metamorfosen<\/em> for the Dutch Poetry Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2747,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2745","poet","type-poet","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":2745,"nl":2743},"pll_sync_post":{},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/poet"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2751,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/2745\/revisions\/2751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}