Ruth Lasters

Ruth Lasters (Antwerp, 1979) made her debut with the novel Poolijs/Polar Ice for which she received the Flemish Debut Prize 2007. Her poetry debut Vouwplannen/Folding Plans was awarded the 2009 Debut Prize Het Liegend Konijn. Her second collection of poetry Lichtmeters/Light meters was published in 2015, for which she received the Herman De Coninck Prize and was nominated for the VSB Poetry Prize. Lichtmeters has meanwhile been translated into German (Lichtmesser, Parasitenpresse, Köln, Germany, translator: Stefan Wieczorek) and Spanish (Fotómetros, Viento de Fondo Argentina, Córdoba, translator:Micaela van Muylem).