The Opposite of a Person

Lieke Marsman is a Dutch writer and the current Poet Laureate of the Netherlands. Her multi-award-winning debut poetry collection Things I Like to Tell Myself was published in 2010 when she was only twenty years old. In 2018 Lieke was diagnosed with bone cancer. In the months following, she wrote The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes, which was translated by Sophie Collins and published by Pav...