Willem Weststeijn Dutch literary scholar, Slavist Date of Birth: 01.01.1943 Country: Netherlands

Content:

1. Tom Nicolaas Nicolaï
2. Academic Positions
3. Co-editor of the international journal "Russian Literature"
4. Velimir Khlebnikov Specialist
5. Russian Literature Scholar
6. Translator
7. Recipient of the David Burliuk International Prize (2004)

Tom Nicolaas Nicolaï

Education

Earned a doctorate in philology from the University of Amsterdam, under the supervision of renowned scholars Jan van der Eng, Mojmír Grygar, and Kees Verheul.

Academic Positions

Professor at the University of Amsterdam

Co-editor of the Dutch journal "Tijdschrift voor Slavische Literatuur"

Co-editor of the international journal "Russian Literature"

Co-editor of the book series "Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics"

Velimir Khlebnikov Specialist

Recognized as one of the world's leading experts on the work of Velimir Khlebnikov

Author of the acclaimed monograph "Velimir Chlebnikov and the Development of Poetical Language in Russian Symbolism and Futurism" (1983)

Russian Literature Scholar

Published a comprehensive overview of Russian literature titled "Russische Literatuur" (2004)

Translator

Translated works by significant Russian poets into Dutch, including:
Gennady Aygi
Timur Kibirov
Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov
Konstantin Kedrov
Elena Shvarts
Olga Sedakova
Svetlana Kekova
Inna Lisnyanskaya
Viktor Sosnora
Alexei Parshchikov
Vera Pavlova
Other Notable Contributions

Played a key role in facilitating the relocation of Nikolai Kharjiev and his archive to the Netherlands

Recipient of the David Burliuk International Prize (2004)

Philology

Rene Guerra	John Antony Cramer	Hermann Kochly
Grigory Ilyinsky	Max Koch	Werner Jaeger