Radna Fabias (1983) was born and grew up in Curaçao. She graduated from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. She made her debut as a poet with the poetry collection Habitus (2018), which won all major poetry prizes in the Netherlands and Belgium, including the Herman de Coninck Prize and the Grand Poetry Prize. She was named the literary talent of 2019 by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant.

Fabias’ style is characterized by great variety, both in terms of content and style. According to the Dutch magazine De Groene, Fabias “dares to use every nook and cranny of poetry as an art form, the poems are short and lyrical, sometimes narrative and long, sometimes clear and accessible and sometimes hermetic and experimental.” Habitus has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Arabic and German.

Fabias also translates poetry himself. She is the Dutch translator of both Warsan Shire and Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück.