Fokke & Sukke

Hans Boland and Alexei Purin translated Fokke & Sukke from Dutch into Russian

 

Hans Boland, born in Jakarta in 1951; cum laude Slavic languages in 1974; PhD on Anna Akhmatova in 1983.

Boland translated 12 oeuvres of poets from Russian into Dutch, amongst others of Pushkin and Akhmatova. He published a monography on Pushkin ('Russische zon', Bas Lubberhuizen, 1999), a history of St. Petersburg ('Sint-Petersburg onderhuids', Atheneum - Polak & Van Gennep, 2003). Boland has lived for 7 years in Russia, for 5 years he was professor at the University of St. Petersburg.

 

Alexei Purin is a poet, essayist and literary critic. Since 1989 he is the chief editor of the renowned Petersburg literary magazin Zvezda (‘The Star’). He publishes in the main national Russian literary magazines. Poems of Purin have been translated into English, Italian, Polish and Dutch. Purin was in 1997 a special guest of Poetry International in Rotterdam.

‘Fokke & Sukke’ are Holland’s most renowned Duck and Canary. Each day they comment in the national quality newspaper NRC-Handelsblad on daily politics, society and culture of the Netherlands and the world beyond.

 

The creators are John Reid (1968), Bastiaan Geleijnse (1967) & Jean-Marc van Tol (1967).

 

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The 'Inertia' edition of the Kabinet book of the Freud's Dreams Museum is a collection of essays and artists’ contributions, highlighting the first part of the project in St. Petersburg, 2006.

 

illustrations in colour of the Inertia exhbition and performances in the Freud’s Dreams Museum in 2006.  

translations into Dutch: Thera Giezen

translations into Russian: Elena Kutnaya and Thera Giezen