Max Temmerman made his debut in 2011 with his first collection, Vaderland/Native Country; critically acclaimed, it was immediately nominated for that year's debut poetry collection award, the C. Buddingh' Prize. His second book, Bijna een Amerika/Almost an American, appeared in 2013 and was awarded the prestigious Herman de Coninck Public Prize, as well as being shortlisted for both the Jo Peeters Poetry Prize in 2014 and the J.C. Bloem Prize in 2015. His third collection Zondag acht dagen/Eight Ways to Sunday, the last of the trilogy, was released in 2015. His work has since been translated into many different languages, including English, German, French, and Turkish.