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Maria Barnas (born 28 August 1973, Hoorn) is a Dutch writer, poet and artist.
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MARIA BARNAS (NL, 1973) She lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin. Both in her written work, including novels, poetry and essays and in her visual work, she focuses on how description shapes reality. She studied visual art at the Rietveld Academy and was resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and The American Academy in Rome. Barnas is currently advisor at the Rijksakademie. Barnas was awarded the C. Buddingh’ Prize for her first collection of poetry Twee Zonnen (2003) and has since published highly appraised collections, including 'A City Rises' in 2007. In 2011 her collected observations on art and literature for NRC Handelsblad were published in 'Fantastic'. Her latest collection of poems Jaja de oerknal ('Yeah-Right the Big Bang') came out in 2013, a book focusing on mechanisms of fear, was nominated for the VSB Poetry Prize 2014 and awarded with the Anna Bijns Poetry prize 2014. Barnas is currently working on visual and spatial essays (including film, drawing and text) in which language and image are combined, results of which have been presented at Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam.
2015 salon maria barnas
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