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Harry G. de Vries (born in Enkhuizen, the Netherlands, in 1961) studied English and Dutch (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam). From 1987 to 2025, he taught English in higher professional education. He now lives in Bergen op Zoom, in the south of the Netherlands. De Vries has been publishing poetry, translations and fiction since 2003. His first book, ‘Sneeuw Valt op een Zondag in April’ (‘Snow Falls on a Sunday in April’), featured translations of poems by Philip Larkin. His translation of Larkin’s ‘Home Is So Sad’ was included in the Dutch version of ‘Poems That Make Grown Women Cry’ and the Dutch translation of David Nicholls’ novel ‘Us’ (‘Wij’). His English poems have appeared in literary journals in the United Kingdom (Envoi) and the United States (The Broadkill Review). In 2020, a small selection of his poetry was published in ‘Colourizations’. He has also translated the fifteenth-century Middle English Regius Poem into rhymed Dutch (2021) and later into rhymed modern English (2025). These works were respectively publlished by FAMA (the Netherlands) and Lewis Masonic (UK) His debut novel, Celis’ Watch (‘Het Horloge van Celis’), was published by GiST in 2025 and positively reviewed by leading Dutch critic Arjan Peters.