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Biography

Simon Mulder (b. 1986) lives in Amsterdam. He studied comparative-historical linguistics at Leiden University and philosophy and classical languages at the University of Amsterdam. From 2012 to 2024 he taught Greek and Latin in secondary education, and he now devotes himself entirely to literature. He writes essays and poetry, with a particular focus on fixed forms (rhyme and metre). As a translator he made his debut in 2022 with Volmaakt moment/L'Heure Exquise, a collection of translations from the poetry of Paul Verlaine, published by HetMoet Publishers, for which he received the Thérèse Cornips Stipendium. In addition, he is dedicated to the classical art of recitation, performing his own work as well as bringing classics from literary history back to life on stage. He has appeared twice at the Dutch National Poetry Slam Championships. Besides the Netherlands, he has performed in Belgium, England, France, Portugal, Russia, and Japan.

He is also the founder and artistic director of the Celebrating Poetry Foundation (Stichting Feest der Poëzie), through which he organises literary events combining recitation and music, and at times film and theatre, ranging from literary-historical productions to performances by contemporary poets and musicians. Within Feest der Poëzie he also oversees the publication of Avantgaerde, a journal for fixed form poetry that is entirely hand-set, printed, and bound, as well as other bibliophile editions.

Together with Rob van Kan, he has organised the Art Nouveau Festijn in The Hague since 2019, focusing on the period around 1900. At the theatre festival De Parade he performed in a production centred on the first moving panorama in more than a century, and together with musicians around pianist Tobias Borsboom he has appeared in performances devoted to Schubert, Erasmus, Beethoven’s Egmont, and the Dadaists. He is also a board member of the Frederik van Eeden Society and the Pianola Museum, and serves on the editorial boards of the literary journal Armada and Arabesken, the journal of the Louis Couperus Society. Since 2023 he has been chair of the Louis Couperus Society.