Nicolaas Quito

Nicolaas Quito (Aruba), studied Political Science/International Law at the University of Amsterdam. He has written 13 books of poetry, fiction, and essays. His poetry appears in 15 anthologies published in The Netherlands, Albania, Romania, China, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, and the USA. Nicolaas is profiled in The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography (2016). His articles on literary developments in the remaining Dutch territories in the Caribbean region have appeared in the Amigoe di Curagao newspaper and other publications. He has been a guest poet at the international literature festivals of St. Martin, Mexico, Colombia (Medellin, 2020), and Germany (Berlin, 2020). The latest book by Nicolaas Quito is Argus (2019), a bilingual (Dutch/English) collection of poems.