Gedicht Eeltsje Hettinga niet bij Omrop wel bij Truth be told (Malta)

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“Malta’s whitewashed tombs”: poet laureate of other European Capital of Culture

April 12, 2018 at 20:50

This year Leeuwarden and Valetta are joint European Capitals of Culture.

Leeuwarden is the regional capital of Frisia, which has its own language, Frisian, the second official language in the Netherlands. They have a poet laureate in Frisia. He has to write 6 to 10 poems a year. His name is Eeltsje Hettinga.

He chose to write a poem on the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. You can read it in three languages: Frisian, Dutch and here it follows in English:

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