David Colmer is an Australian writer and translator based in Holland. He was awarded the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize and PEN Medallion and is a two-time winner of the David Reid Poetry Translation Prize. His translations include Martinus Nijhoff’s ‘Awater’ for Anvil's edition of the poem (2010) and collections of the work of Ramsey Nasr, Cees Nooteboom
and Hugo Claus, the latter two forthcoming.