Belgian literature, the Glossary

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1. 61 relations: Alain Le Bussy, Albert Giraud, Amélie Nothomb, André-Paul Duchâteau, Arthur Xhignesse, Émile Verhaeren, Belgian comics, Belgian French, Belgium, Camille Lemonnier, Charles De Coster, Cyriel Buysse, Dimitri Verhulst, Dutch-language literature, Eric de Kuyper, Erwin Mortier, Eugène Demolder, Eupen-Malmedy, Flemish Community, Flemish dialects, François Baudouin, Francophone literature, French Community of Belgium, French literature, Georges Eekhoud, Georges Rodenbach, Georges Simenon, German language, German-speaking Community of Belgium, Guido Gezelle, Hendrik Conscience, Henri Michaux, Henri Vernes, Herman Brusselmans, Herman de Coninck, Hugo Claus, J.-H. Rosny, J.-H. Rosny aîné, J.-H. Rosny jeune, Jean Ray (author), Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Jef Geeraerts, Louis Paul Boon, Marguerite Yourcenar, Marnix Gijsen, Maurice Grevisse, Maurice Maeterlinck, Michel de Ghelderode, Multilingualism, Nicolas Ancion, ... Expand index (11 more) »

Alain Le Bussy

Alain Le Bussy (1947 – 14 October 2010) was a prolific Belgian author of science fiction who won the Prix Rosny-Aîné in 1993 for his novel Deltas.

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Albert Giraud

Albert Giraud (23 June 1860 – 26 December 1929) was a Belgian poet who wrote in French.

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Amélie Nothomb

Baroness Fabienne Claire Nothomb (born 13 August 1967État présent de la noblesse belge, éditions of 1979, 1995 and 2010. Her birth is announced in n° 87, aout 1967, p. 340 of the Bulletin de l'association de la noblesse du royaume de Belgique, publication trimestrielle: Annonces de naissance: "Baron et Baronne Patrick Nothomb: Fabienne, 13 août 1967".), better known by her pen name Amélie Nothomb, is a Belgian Francophone novelist. Belgian literature and Amélie Nothomb are Belgian writers in French.

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André-Paul Duchâteau

André-Paul Duchâteau (8 May 1925 – 26 August 2020) was a Belgian comics writer and mystery novelist. Belgian literature and André-Paul Duchâteau are Belgian writers in French.

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Arthur Xhignesse

Arthur Xhignesse (born 1873, died 1941) was a Belgian writer who worked mainly in the Walloon language.

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Émile Verhaeren

Émile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren (21 May 1855 – 27 November 1916) was a Belgian poet and art critic who wrote in the French language.

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Belgian comics

Belgian comics are a distinct subgroup in the comics history, and played a major role in the development of European comics, alongside France with whom they share a long common history.

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Belgian French

Belgian French (français de Belgique) is the variety of French spoken mainly among the French Community of Belgium, alongside related Oïl languages of the region such as Walloon, Picard, Champenois, and Lorrain (Gaumais).

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Camille Lemonnier

Antoine Louis Camille Lemonnier (24 March 1844 – 13 June 1913) was a Belgian writer, poet and journalist.

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Charles De Coster

Charles-Theodore-Henri De Coster (20 August 1827 – 7 May 1879) was a Belgian novelist whose efforts laid the basis for a native Belgian literature.

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Cyriel Buysse

Cyrillus Gustave Emile "Cyriel" Buysse (20 September 1859 – 25 July 1932) was a Flemish naturalist author and playwright.

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Dimitri Verhulst

Dimitri Verhulst (born 2 October 1972) is a Belgian writer and poet.

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Dutch-language literature

Dutch language literature comprises all writings of literary merit written through the ages in the Dutch language, a language which currently has around 23 million native speakers.

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Eric de Kuyper

Eric de Kuyper (born 2 September 1942) is a Flemish-Belgian and Dutch writer, semiologist, art critic, and experimental film director.

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Erwin Mortier

Erwin Mortier (born 28 November 1965) is a Dutch-language Belgian author.

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Eugène Demolder

Eugène-Ghislain-Alfred Demolder (16 December 1862 – 8 October 1919) was a Belgian writer. Belgian literature and Eugène Demolder are Belgian writers in French.

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Eupen-Malmedy

Eupen-Malmedy is a small, predominantly German-speaking region in eastern Belgium.

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The Flemish Community is one of the three institutional communities of Belgium, established by the Belgian constitution and having legal responsibilities only within the precise geographical boundaries of the Dutch-language area and of the bilingual area of Brussels-Capital.

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Flemish dialects

Flemish (Vlaams) is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language.

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François Baudouin

François Baudouin (1520 – 24 October 1573), also called Balduinus, was a French jurist, Christian controversialist and historian.

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Francophone literature

Francophone literature is literature written in the French language.

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In Belgium, the French Community (Communauté française) refers to one of the three constituent constitutional linguistic communities.

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French literature

French literature generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French.

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Georges Eekhoud

Georges Eekhoud (27 May 1854 – 29 May 1927) was a Belgian novelist of Flemish descent, but writing in French. Belgian literature and Georges Eekhoud are Belgian writers in French.

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Georges Rodenbach

Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach (16 July 1855 – 25 December 1898) was a Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist.

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Georges Simenon

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer, most famous for his fictional detective Jules Maigret. Belgian literature and Georges Simenon are Belgian writers in French.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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The German-speaking Community (Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft), also known as East Belgium (Ostbelgien), is one of the three federal communities of Belgium, with an area of in the Liège Province of Wallonia, including nine of the eleven municipalities of Eupen-Malmedy.

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Guido Gezelle

Guido Pieter Theodorus Josephus Gezelle (1 May 1830 – 27 November 1899) was an influential writer and poet and a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium.

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Hendrik Conscience

Henri (Hendrik) Conscience (3 December 1812 – 10 September 1883) was a Belgian author.

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Henri Michaux

Henri Michaux (24 May 1899, Namur – 19 October 1984, Paris) was a Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter.

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Henri Vernes

Charles-Henri-Jean Dewisme (16 October 1918 – 25 July 2021), better known by his pen name Henri Vernes, was an author of action and science fiction novels. Belgian literature and Henri Vernes are Belgian writers in French.

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Herman Brusselmans

Herman Frans Martha Brusselmans (born 9 October 1957) is a Belgian novelist, poet, playwright and columnist.

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Herman de Coninck

Herman de Coninck (21 February 1944 – 22 May 1997) was a Belgian poet, essayist, journalist and publisher.

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Hugo Claus

Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (5 April 1929 – 19 March 2008) was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms.

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J.-H. Rosny

J.-H. Rosny was the pseudonym of the brothers Joseph Henri Honoré Boex (1856–1940) and Séraphin Justin François Boex (1859–1948), both born in Brussels. Belgian literature and J.-H. Rosny are Belgian writers in French.

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J.-H. Rosny aîné

J.-H. Rosny aîné was the pen name of Joseph Henri Honoré Boex (17 February 1856 – 11 February 1940), a Belgian author considered one of the founding figures of modern science fiction.

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J.-H. Rosny jeune

J.-H. Rosny jeune was the pseudonym of Séraphin Justin François Boex (July 21, 1859 – July 21, 1948), a French author of Belgian origin who, along with his better known older brother J.-H. Rosny aîné, is considered one of the founding figures of modern science fiction.

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Jean Ray is the best-known pseudonym among the many used by Raymundus Joannes de Kremer (8 July 1887 – 17 September 1964), a prolific Belgian (Flemish) writer. Belgian literature and Jean Ray (author) are Belgian writers in French.

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Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Jean-Philippe Toussaint (29 November 1957, Brussels) is a Belgian novelist, photographer and filmmaker. Belgian literature and Jean-Philippe Toussaint are Belgian writers in French.

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Jef Geeraerts

Jozef Adriaan Anna Geeraerts (23 February 1930 – 11 May 2015), better known as Jef Geeraerts, was a Belgian writer.

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Louis Paul Boon

Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht (Louis Paul) Boon (15 March 1912, in Aalst – 10 May 1979, in Erembodegem) was a Belgian writer of novels, poetry, pornography, columns and art criticism.

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Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar (born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947.

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Marnix Gijsen

Marnix Gijsen (20 October 1899 – 29 September 1984) was a Belgian writer.

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Maurice Grevisse

Maurice Grevisse (7 October 1895 – 4 July 1980) was a Belgian grammarian. Belgian literature and Maurice Grevisse are Belgian writers in French.

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Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French.

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Michel de Ghelderode

Michel de Ghelderode (born Adémar Adolphe Louis Martens; 3 April 1898 – 1 April 1962) was an avant-garde Belgian dramatist, from Flanders, who spoke and wrote in French. Belgian literature and Michel de Ghelderode are Belgian writers in French.

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Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers.

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Nicolas Ancion

Nicolas Ancion is a Belgian writer born in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium, in 1971.

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Pierre Mertens

Pierre Mertens (born 9 October 1939) is a Belgian French-speaking writer and lawyer who specializes in international law, director of the Centre de sociologie de la littérature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and literary critic with the newspaper Le Soir. Belgian literature and Pierre Mertens are Belgian writers in French.

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Regional language

* A regional language is a language spoken in a region of a sovereign state, whether it be a small area, a federated state or province or some wider area.

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Robert III, Count of Flanders

Robert III (1249 – 17 September 1322), also called Robert of Béthune and nicknamed The Lion of Flanders (De Leeuw van Vlaanderen), was the Count of Nevers from 1273 and Count of Flanders from 1305 until his death.

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Stanislas-André Steeman

Stanislas-Andre Steeman (Liège on 23 January 1908 – Menton on 15 December 1970) was a Belgian illustrator and French-language author.

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Suzanne Lilar

Baroness Suzanne Lilar (née Suzanne Verbist; 21 May 1901 – 11 December 1992) was a Flemish Belgian essayist, novelist, and playwright writing in French. Belgian literature and Suzanne Lilar are Belgian writers in French.

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Thierry Martens

Thierry Martens (29 January 1942 – 27 June 2011) was a Belgian author who wrote science fiction, detective novels, short stories and comics under the pen name Yves Varende. Belgian literature and Thierry Martens are Belgian writers in French.

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Tom Lanoye

Tom Lanoye (his name is pronounced the French way: /lanwa/) was born on 27 August 1958 in the Belgian city Sint Niklaas.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century.

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Walloon language

Walloon (natively walon; wallon) is a Romance language that is spoken in much of Wallonia and, to a very small extent, in Brussels, Belgium; some villages near Givet, northern France; and a clutch of communities in northeastern Wisconsin, United States.

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West Flemish

West Flemish (West-Vlams or West-Vloams or Vlaemsch (in French Flanders), West-Vlaams, flamand occidental) is a collection of Low Franconian varieties spoken in western Belgium and the neighbouring areas of France and the Netherlands.

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Willem Elsschot

Alphonsus Josephus de Ridder (7 May 1882 – 31 May 1960) was a Belgian writer and poet who wrote under the pseudonym Willem Elsschot.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_literature

Also known as Belgian poetry, Literature of Belgium.

, Pierre Mertens, Regional language, Robert III, Count of Flanders, Stanislas-André Steeman, Suzanne Lilar, Thierry Martens, Tom Lanoye, Vaudeville, Walloon language, West Flemish, Willem Elsschot.