BIOGRAPHY GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT

GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT was born in West Flanders (Belgium) in 1944. He is a poet, translator and former editor of POINT (P0etry INTernational), founded in 1984 in Belgium, but lives since 1987 in Altea, a picturesque Mediterranean town in Spain, where he organises in summer The Poetic Evening Concerts of Ithaca. He is also vice-president of the Korean Association of World Literature, co-founder of JUNPA (Japan Universal Poets Association) in Kyoto, cultural adviser to the Huifeng Cultural Association in Shanghai, and founding president of the Cultural Foundation Ithaca, founded in 2008 in Altea, Spain.

His own poetry books, so far 21, have been published in 33 countries. He is also known for his translations of modern poetry, having translated poets such as Bertolt Brecht, Reiner Kunze, Peter Huchel, Miguel Hernández, José Ángel Valente and Mahmoud Darwish, as well as anthologies of Argentine, Austrian, German, Catalan, Chilean, Spanish, Franco-Belgian, Italian, Mexican, Nicaraguan and even Korean, Japanese and Chinese poetry. In total, more than 40 collections. He is also the editor of Poetry without Borders, which publishes 2 times per month a poem from all over the world in over 40 languages.

Germain Droogenbroodt has been invited as poet at international poetry festivals in Argentina, China, Croatia, Cuba, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Denmark, Egypt, Spain, India, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Morocco, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Taiwan and Thailand, even at the I-Ching Congress in China, and received more than 30 international poetry prizes. He was recommended in the 2017 for the Nobel Prize of Literature by the Mihai Eminescu Academy and a dozen international cultural institutes and internationally renowned poets.