Nyk de Vries is writer and musician, born in Noordbergum (1971) , a small village in Friesland. His youth in that relatively isolated area in the north of the Netherlands is a persistent motif in his literary work. He writes prose poems, both in Frisian and Dutch \u2013 very short stories not exceeding more than a hundred words \u2013 but also longer prose. In recent years he performed at large poetry festivals, such as Poetry International and Poetry on the Road in Bremen, in most cases accompagnied by a musical act. <\/p>
De Vries\u2019 first bilingual (Dutch-Frisian) poetry collection Motorman<\/em> was published in 2007. His second volume of poetry Per ongeluk reed ik naar het zuiden<\/em> (Accidentally I drove South<\/em>) was published in 2010. A year later he published De dingen gebeuren omdat ze rijmen<\/em> (Things happen because they rhyme) (2011), a book with prose poems. <\/p> His poetry collection \u2018Things happen because they rhyme\u2019 was nominated for the J.C. Bloem Poetry Prize.<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nykas de Vriesas (Nikas de Vrisas) gim\u0117 1971 m. Fryzijos kaimelyje Nordbergiume. Ra\u0161ytojas, muzikantas. Nuolatinis jo k\u016brini\u0173 motyvas \u2013 vaikyst\u0117<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetai","category-poetai-2019"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3665,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions\/3665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}