Lieke Marsman is a writer and former Poet Laureate of the Netherlands. Her debut poetry collection, Things That I Tell Myself, was published when she was only twenty, and was awarded three major poetry prizes. Her first novel, The Opposite of a Person, was published in English in 2022 by Daunt Books. On Another Planet They Can Save Me was published in the Netherlands in 2025 and became an instant bestseller. Lieke Marsman lives and works in Amsterdam.
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