Erik Jan Willem Menkveld (25 April 1959 – 30 March 2014) was a Dutch poet.

[1] In 1995, he published Achter het behang, a Dutch translation of the German work Der kleine Erziehungsberater by Axel Hacke.

van der Hoogt Prize [nl] for De karpersimulator.

[1] In 2008, he was one of the nominees to become Dichter des Vaderlands, an unofficial title for the poet laureate of the Netherlands, along with Hagar Peeters, Joke van Leeuwen and Ramsey Nasr.

[6] In 2012, he won the Academica Literatuurprijs for his novel Het grote zwijgen (2011).