Sybren Polet

Sybe Minnema (19 June 1924 – 19 July 2015), known by his pen name Sybren Polet, was a Dutch prose writer and poet.

After World War II he made his debut under his own name with the poetry collection "Genesis" (1946).

As Sybren Polet he made his debut in 1949 in the literary magazine Podium, which he served from 1952 to 1965 as an editor.

His prose (novels and stories) has a strong experimental / innovative character, where the boundaries between genres and conventions structure and chronology split apart: dream and reality co-exist, past, present and future blend together; characters have no fixed properties.

Polet also wrote plays and children's books and put together anthologies of poetry and science fiction (perhaps the first of their kind in Dutch).