Hans Boland, born in Jakarta in 1951; cum laude Slavic languages in 1974; PhD on Anna Akhmatova in 1983. Boland translated 12 oeuvres of poets from Russian into Dutch, amongst others of Pushkin and Akhmatova. He published a monography on Pushkin (`Russische zon`, Bas Lubberhuizen, 1999), a history of St. Petersburg (`Sint-Petersburg onderhuids`, Atheneum - Polak & Van Gennep, 2003). Boland has lived for 7 years in Russia, for 5 years he was professor at the University of St. Petersburg. |