Utrecht University expert appointed P.C. Hooft Award jury member

Assistant Professor in modern and contemporary Dutch-language poetry Kila van der Starre will be a member of the jury of the P.C. Hooft Award for Literature 2024. The jury also includes Tsead Bruinja, Kiki Coumans, Maarten van der Graaff, and Alfred Schaffer.

P.C. Hooft Award for Literature
The P.C. Hooft Award for Literature is the most important Dutch literary prize for an oeuvre. This state prize is awarded annually, alternately for narrative prose, contemplative prose, and poetry. The 2024 prize will be awarded in the poetry category. The Literature Museum hosts the award ceremony, which usually takes place around the anniversary of P.C. Hooft’s death, 21 May.

Kila van der Starre
Kila van der Starre is specialised in modern and contemporary Dutch language poetry. In 2021, she defended her dissertation ‘Poëzie buiten het boek. De circulatie en het gebruik van poëzie’ (Poetry Off the Page. The Circulation and Use of Poetry, with an English summary), which is available online as a free e-book. Van der Starre is interested in the ways people use poetry in their everyday lives, in poetry education, and in the relationship between the medium of poetry and the meaning of poetry.

At Utrecht University, Van der Starre lectures in the bachelor’s programmes in Nederlandse taal en cultuur, Literary Studies, and Taal- en cultuurstudies, in the research master’s programme in Nederlandse literatuur en cultuur, and at the University College. In addition to her appointment at the university, Van der Starre is a freelance literary scholar.