Jan H Mysjkin Biography

Jan H. Mysjkin, poet and writer, leads a semi-nomadic existence between addresses in Paris and Bucharest. He studied film production at the RITCS in Brussels, followed by philosophy and literature at the Rijksuniversiteit (State University) in Ghent. As a poet, he has consistently pursued a course that focuses on the experimental, linguistic aspect of poetry. He made his debut in 1985 with Vormbeeldige gedichten (Exemplary poems), which included an afterword by the experimental writer Ivo Michiels. An identical affinity with experimental writing is evident not only in the poems themselves but in his correspondence with Pol Hoste, included in Mysjkin's second collection Spel van spiegels/Sonnetten in beweging (Play of mirrors/Sonnets in motion; 1990).