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Donald Gardner is a poet and literary translator who divides his time between Amsterdam and County Kildare, Ireland. He has published six collections of poetry, most recently Early Morning (Grey Suit Editions, 2017). Grey Suit Editions has also just published his New and Selected Poems (1966-2020). Originally a Spanish-language translator (Octavio Paz, The Sun Stone, Cosmos Books, 1969), Gardner has translated many Dutch and Flemish poets over the years. He has translated two collections of Remco Campert's poetry, I Dreamed in the Cities at Night (Arc Publications, 2007) and In Those Days (Shoestring Press, 2015). For the latter collection, he was awarded the Vondel Prize for literary translation.

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