2024 - Michaël Vandebril
Michaël Vandebril (born 1972) is a Flemish poet and literary curator.
He made his debut as a poet in 2012 with the poetry collection Het vertrek van Maeterlinck / L'Exil de Maeterlinck. This bilingual collection inspired by Belgian and French symbolism was awarded the Herman de Coninck Prize. 2021 saw the publication of his third collection Op de weg van Appia, in which he captures the Roman Via Appia on the road in 455 verses, with drawings by Bart Pluym.
While staying at literature house Kiraathane in Istanbul, he is working on his new collection Naar Constantinopel ("To Constantinople"), another long epic travel poem, this time through Albania, northern Macedonia, Greece and Turkey. His poetry follows tracks that he connects to what is happening today.