{"id":659,"date":"2026-04-01T09:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/?post_type=poet&#038;p=659"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:17:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:17:32","slug":"esohe-weyden-bel","status":"publish","type":"poet","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/en\/poet\/esohe-weyden-bel\/","title":{"rendered":"Esohe Weyden (BEL)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Esohe Weyden (1990, BEL) is a writer, poet, presenter, and lawyer. She currently serves as the poet laureate of Antwerp, which has taken her to a variety of stages, from literary festivals to national ceremonies. Her work explores language as a space for identity, community, and imagination. With her collection <em>Tussentaal<\/em> (2022), she was nominated for the C. Buddingh\u2019 Prize. Alongside her literary practice, she is a doctoral researcher in family property law at the University of Antwerp.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>How you might know this poet<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Poet laureate of Antwerp from 2025 to 2027.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Performances at festivals such as Crossing Border, Pukkelpop, and Tomorrowland.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Winner of the 2022 audience award at the PrixFintroPrijs; debut poetry collection <em>Tussentaal<\/em> (2022), nominated for the C. Buddingh Prize, followed by <em>Richtingloos navigeren<\/em> (2025).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":571,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-659","poet","type-poet","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":659,"nl":655},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/659","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}