Toon Tellegen

Toon Tellegen is a Dutch writer and poet. He is a nominee for the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award. He has published more than twenty collections of poetry to date, including the 2001 winner of the British Poetry Society’s Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation, Raptors (Raafvogels), translated into English by Judith Wilkinson. Tellegen has also been awarded the Theo Thijssen Prize in 1997 and the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 2007, each for his full body of work.