Ramsey Nasr

Ramsey Nasr is a Dutch author and actor of mixed descent, half Palestinian, half Dutch. He was born in Rotterdam. He was Dichter des Vaderlands between January 2009 and January 2013. The concept of this was created by the Dutch newspaper NRC, the Nederlandse Programma Stichting and the foundation Poetry International in January 2000. Before Nasr was Poet of the City of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2005. In 2005, he received the Hugues C. Pernath-prijs.