'Zou de wereldbol een beetje aan het leeglopen zijn?': Herman de Coninck over het Afrikaans en Afrikaner maatschappij, cultuur en politiek

In the institutional context of literature in Flanders Herman de Coninck (1944-97) was an important player (or "actor"). The author is well known as a poet, a literary critic and editor of the Dutch Granto-like magazine Nieuw Wereldtesdnift (NWT). Academics and essayists have paid much critical attention to de Coninck's poetics and aesthetic views. In a recent anthology of Flemish poetry since the sixties, Hotel New Flondtes(2008), he is called an innovative "paradigmatic poet" in the poetry system of Flanders. Much less known is his olace in and relationship to the field of Afrikaans literatu... Mehr ...