Ramsey Nasr


Ramsey Nasr is a Dutch author and actor of mixed descent, half Palestinian, half Dutch.
He was Dichter des Vaderlands between January 2009 and January 2013. The concept of this was created by the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, the Nederlandse Programma Stichting and the foundation Poetry International in January 2000. Before Ramsey was Poet of the City of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2005. In 2005 he received the Hugues C. Pernath-prijs.
In June 2014, an adaptation for the stage of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead was presented at the Holland Festival, directed by Ivo van Hove, with Ramsey Nasr as Howard Roark.

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